ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 131 
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JENNY LIND WITH GIOVANNI BELLETPTI, Tenor, 
AND JULES BENEDICT, Conpuctor 
(Castle Garden, 1850) 
were shown—prints, photographs, paintings and 
daguerreotypes—the most curious of these being 
an “image paree’”’ portrait set in a heavy gilt 
frame about a foot square, arms extended and 
hands crossed on knee, the figure dressed as 
Jenny Lind had dressed and with part of a lace 
collar and yellow satin gown once worn by the 
“Nightingale.” 
Perhaps the most charming likeness was the 
daguerreotype here reproduced, of Jenny with 
her husband, Otto Goldschmidt, whose arm is 
about her in the picture. To this gifted musi- 
cian, nine years her junior, she was happily 
married in Boston, February 5, 1852. This 
daguerreotype was exhibited by Mr. Edward 
Francis Coftin of Worcester, Massachusetts, and 
later purchased by Mr. Leonidas Westervelt of 
New York, owner of an enviable collection of 
relics of the great singer, which he has been 
collecting for the past decade. 
Among Mr. Westervelt’s exhibits were bi- 
ographies of P. T. Barnum, who first contracted 
with the “Swedish Nightingale’ to sing in 
America. one of these containing a bar of music 
with the appended signatures of “Otto Gold- 
schmidt” and “Jenny Goldschmidt, nee Lind;” 
two blue-green glass bottles with the head and 
shoulders of Madamoiselle Lind raised in the 
glass; Barnum’s own copy of her life; a photo- 
graph from an ambrotype and a daguerreotype 
taken in Boston; upward of fifteen different 
medals struck in commemoration of the singer’s 
popularity; two large volumes of her musie and 
thirty of her American musical programs 
bound; a book from her library, some of the 
George Baxter prints of her, printed in oils 
(1850), one showing her singing “Coming Thro’ 
the Rye,” and two statuettes—busts of the singer 
in Haviland china, made in England about the 
same year. 
Miss M. H. Osman of Buffalo loaned for the 
exhibit a fan presented to Jenny Lind by the 
Princess Eugenie of Sweden, a black lace veil 
worn by Jenny Lind and an autograph letter of 
hers. Mrs. John W. Tobin loaned a quaint china 
perfume bottle. Mr. John F. Anderson of San 
Diego, California, exhibited a volume of Jenny 
Lind’s programs printed on embellished silk 
cloth, together with Exeter Hall Programs 
(London, 1849). 
Mr. Elliott Smith’s collection included a 
splendid engraving with autograph signature, a 
Baxter color print showing Jenny Lind as “The 
Daughter of the Regiment,” books, programs, 
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JENNY LIND IN Li SONNAMBULA 
(Collection of Mr. C. H. Jones) 
