LIND JENNY: (1820-1887) Swedish Opera Singer, known as the Swedish Nightingale. A.L.S., Jenny Gol

LIND JENNY: (1820-1887) Swedish Opera Singer, known as the Swedish Nightingale. A.L.S., Jenny Goldschmidt, four pages, 8vo, Hamburg, 6th February 1855, to Madame Gonne, in German (untranslated). Together with a second A.L.S., Jenny Lind, four pages, 8vo, Stuttgart, 13th November 1846, to an unidentified correspondent, in German (untranslated). Also including Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907) German Composer, Conductor and Pianist, husband of Jenny Lind. Three A.Ls.S., Otto Goldschmidt, eleven pages (total), 8vo, Wimbledon Park & South Kensington, 1868-98, one to the English Composer and Pianist William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875) and two to Bennett`s son. In the first, lengthy letter Goldschmidt discusses the Royal Academy of Music, the professors, students and class structures and in the other letters Goldschmidt refers to a manuscript for a Concerto for Pianoforte by William Sterndale Bennett and also briefly mentions a conversation with Arthur Sullivan. One of Lind`s letters is completely, although neatly, split in two across the central horizontal fold, and both have light overall age wear. Goldschmidt`s letters are in fine condition. FR to VG, 5