Excerpt from Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, Vol. 1 of 2: Her Early Art-Life and Dramatic Career, 1820-1851

For the use made of the materials thus industriously collected, the two authors are solely responsible, and this general responsibility they have shared in common, so far as was practicable. But, within that common responsibility, each has undertaken separate sections of the work, so that to the one has fallen the story of Madame Goldschmidt's life so far as it belonged to Sweden, together with that part of it which followed her farewell to the stage, while the other has taken in hand the whole of her dramatic and musical career in its European development.

A divided authorship must, perforce, lessen the effect which follows on perfect unity in ideal and in expression but, on the other hand, a personality such as hers, which was as unique in moral character as it was rare in artistic quality, lends itself to double treatment. Even if such a treat ment involve some repetitions, the completeness of the impression may nevertheless gain thereby.

It only remains to thank those who have more especially contributed to the material placed at our disposal. Such thanks we do, indeed, express in the pages of the book itself to all who have so helped us, but some there are without whose aid it would have been simply impossible to make the book what it is, and to these we desire to pledge our peculiar gratitude.

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