A few days ago I wrote about the engagement of Austin Dickinson and Susan Huntington Gilbert. Susan had been in New Hampshire visiting relatives, and then on her return trip to Amherst, she stopped in Boston to meet Austin at the Revere House Hotel. He proposed to Susan in a parlor of the hotel in March of 1853.
I wrote about this and shared pictures of the hotel HERE.
I also included a link with info about the hotel and some of the notable guests who’d stayed there – including “the Swedish Nightingale,” Jenny Lind.
I wrote about this and shared pictures of the hotel HERE.
I also included a link with info about the hotel and some of the notable guests who’d stayed there – including “the Swedish Nightingale,” Jenny Lind.
 | Info on Lind’s tour of America can be found HERE. In July 1851, the 20-year-old Emily Dickinson attended one of Lind’s concerts, and her account of the event is included in that link; furthermore, I wrote about the Lind-Dickinson connection in a past post, HERE. Jenny Lind's American tour, managed by P.T. Barnum, lasted from September 1850 to May 1852. Her tour included cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Charleston, St. Louis, and more. She began her tour in New York City with her first performance at Castle Garden on September 11, 1850. Her final U.S. performance was also at the Castle Garden in New York City on May 24, 1852. |
| In 1851 Lind performed in Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Old First Church on Main Street, and it was so celebrated that her concert at the church drew more than 1,800 spectators by train and carriage from as far away as Brattleboro, Vermont -- a long 40-mile haul in those days. Additional details about all of this can be found HERE. |  |
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