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The engagement at Vienna, vaguely alluded to in the letter to Madame Erikson, and more decidedly in that to Herr Josephson, was now finally arranged, and on the eve of fulfilment. The terms of this contract-five hundred gulden[67] each, for five performances, with an extra benefit night-had been carefully discussed, and gladly accepted, by Herr Franz Pokorny, the then manager of the Theater an der Wien, during the latter part of Mdlle. Lind's stay at Berlin; and, as soon as she could conveniently do so, after the exciting scene at the Royal Opera-House on the evening of her benefit, she took leave of her kind host and hostess, and started, with her companion, Mdlle. Louise Johansson, for Vienna, _viâ_ Leipzig, in which last-named town she had been invited to spend a few days, as the guest of Herr Heinrich Brockhaus, and had also decided upon giving a concert, at the Gewandhaus, on her own account.
On April 8, 1846, Herr Brockhaus wrote in his Diary: -