Jenny Lind the Artist by Henry Scott Holland

She reached Stockholm on the 12th of May, in our old friend "The Gauthiod," and was welcomed home by an immense crowd, who had assembled on the quay to greet her. She was to sing at six concerts in the Royal Theatre, on the 24th, 28th, and 31st of May, and the 3rd, 5th, and 7th of June; and, besides these, there were to be two State Concerts during June in honour of the wedding of the Crown Prince. The tickets for the concerts were put up for auction, but all the profits went to the Royal Theatre.[160] It was, we remember, on its behalf, that the King had invited her to return and sing. On the concerts themselves, the _Daily Allehanda_, her old friend, wrote that it was enough to say that-"she was the same as ever."

"Though Mdlle. Lind may not appear again in any _rôle_ on the stage itself, yet it is only the costume which we miss; for if you will only go and see and hear her sing, in the _Puritani_, or as the woodland child in _Vielka_, or as the passionately sorrowing Donna Anna, or, again, as Jenny Lind herself, impulsive, naïve, and charming, pouring out her wonderful music in Taubert's little Lied-then come back and say whether you have ever heard such dramatic singing, or seen a more living representation in look, manner or expression of each several character whose mind and feelings the artist proposed to paint in song."