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CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 Copyright Bruce Seymour

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.6 2 February: Theatre on Green Street, Follies of a Night, Eton Boy

Albany Morning Times, page 3.3 3 February: House was crowded last night

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.5 3 February: Follies of a Night, Maidens Beware (LM as Rosalie)

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.6 4 February: Cabin Boy & Maidens Beware

Golden Era (San Francisco), 22 March 57, page 4.5 LM has offered $12,000 per year to lease the theater to be built on Broadway by Henry Wood. Her sister made her stage debut as Jenny in "The Cabin Boy" at LM's benefit in Albany.

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.8 5 February: Lola Montez in Bavaria

Albany Morning Times page 3.1 6 February: LM in Bavaria plus Maidens Beware page 3.4 tonight is benefit for LM (not announced on bill), "go see the Spider Dance" (also not announced on bill)

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.8 6 February: Half???? notice

Evening Journal (Albany) page 3.6 7 February: Marget (sic), Spider Dance, Cabin Boy

Golden Era (San Francisco), 29 March 57, page 4.6 Quotes the Albany Transcript as reporting LM gave $20 to a destitute actress in Albany to get to Columbus, OH where her husband was playing. "Notwithstanding her many strange freaks, she is possessed f a charitable and noble heart."

Harvard Theatre Collection, unidentified clipping (Frank Leslie’s' Ill??) LM and her Manager - A correspondent writes us that Lola Montez and her party had quite a perilous time of it while journeying from Albany to Providence. They were in readiness to start Monday last, but at daylight the water was about twenty feet high about the hotel. On Tuesday, about 1 p.m., the party made a venture, obtained a scow, got the baggage in - the ladies sitting on the trunks - and pushed to the steamboat landing, a distance of about 100 feet - and fares a dollar! There a boat was hired for the pleasant sum of $5 and the goodly company managed to get over the river in time for the train, which left at 3 p.m. Lola's agent, Mr Henry Willard, got the baggage into another boat, and started on his own hook. The boat was about half way across, when the ice began to hem it in, and the boatmen gave up and sat quietly "on their oars." The ice was making fast and rather than see the boat sit firmly in the ice, as it would have been within thirty minutes, the valorous Willard seized an oar and set to work with a hope that people on the Greenbush side would see him. Success crowned his hopes, and ere long fifteen noble, willing fellows had begun to lay rails on the ice, which by that time had ceased running. So far, so good; but there was shortly a deficiency of rails, when, as if by an act of Providence, a pile of lumber had floated down to within a few yards of the shore...... got LM's seven trunks onto land, stored for the night in Greenbush, dragged to the CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 2 train before 8 a.m. LM opened Wednesday at Forbe's Theatre when hundreds were disappointed in gaining admission.

Providence Journal, page 2.6 12 February: Great attraction is announced. The distinguished, talented and beautiful Lola Montez of world wide celebrity has been engaged for three nights at very heavy expense, as we understand, and will appear this evening in her famous drama called "Lola Montez in Bavaria." page 3.2: ad for LM in B; King = G.H.Griffiths, von Schottenvotten = E.Varrey, D'Abel = E.C.Prior, Princess Vichillini = Miss Kinlock, Countess Bassenheimer = Miss Andrews, Madame von Somers = Mrs. D.S. Palmer, all local actors

Providence Journal, page? 13 February: LM in B plus farce plus El Jaleo de Xeres

Providence Journal, page? 14 February: same program as 13 February

Providence Journal, page 2.5 16 February: Lola Montez has her benefit and plays for the last time tonight. Her engagement for three nights has been one of the most successful of its length ever performed here by any person. The house was crowded to overflowing on Thursday (her first) evening and was full on Friday and Saturday evenings. This evening she appears as "Margot" in a two-act comedy of that name written by J.B.DeWalder of New York and afterwards as Julien in a drama called "The Cabin Boy." In the drama of "The Cabin Boy," her young sister, Mlle Minnie Montez (said to be very beautiful) will sustain the leading female character - this being her second appearance as an actress on any stage..... page 3.3: ad indicates that the sailor's hornpipe is interpolated in the Cabin Boy and the celebrated Spider Dance concludes the evening

Providence Journal, page 2.7 17 February: We are in the midst of a prodigious theatrical excitement. In the earlier part of last week the "account of empty boxes" if not "beggarly" was decidedly gloomy. Now a man is lucky if he can get a chance to stand in the entry and obtain a glimpse of the stage occasionally by looking over the heads of the people. Last night the crowd was even greater than on the first night of Lola's appearance. The manager "in view of the existing state of things" has induced the celebrated lady to perform one more night - which he announces as "most positively her last." She is under an engagement to appear in Pittsburgh next Monday evening. The younger sister is quite as attractive a personality as she was represented to be, and acquits herself well on the stage, for a novice. page 3.2: ad for Margot the Poultry Dealer, Cabin Boy (with Hornpipe) plus Rough Diamond plus Spider Dance

Golden Era (San Francisco), 5 April 57, page 4.5 Thomas de Walden has written "Margot the Poultry Vendor" for Lola Montez. LM is booked to perform in Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Freiheits Freund (Ptsbg) page 3.1 26 February: Lola Montez zieht im englishchen Theater volle Häuser. Am Dienstag hielt sie eine ihre characteristishcen "Speeches" und zog im Tone der gekränkten Unschuld gegen den Puff eines englishen Morgenblattes los.

Pittsburgh Morning Post, page 3.1 27 February: The first three evenings her houses were full to overflowing, but last night showed a terrible falling off. The Spider Dance, however, should bring them up strong. Attention, young men, old men, and don't forget your lorgnettes! The Spider Dance tonight for the Countess of Landsfeld's benefit!

Freiheits Freund (Ptsbg) page 3.1 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 3

28 February: Lola Montezs Stern ist schon wieder im Sinken. Anfangs zog sie volle Häuser, jetzt aber will der Magnet schon nicht mehr ziehen. Undankbare Rauchstadt.

Pittsburgh Morning Post, page 3.1 28 February: LM's benefit last evening was a rouser. There was not available standing place in the whole house. Lola is a great card for the management. She only performs one evening more. Countess of Landsfeld Benefit: A Rich Scene not in the Bills - The frequenters of the theatre during the present engagement are treated with many little titbits not down in the bills, but which appear to be nonetheless enjoyed by the boys from that fact. Last evening the performance was likely to end with a pugilistic exhibition between the lovely Lola and the accomplished leader of the orchestra, M. Zittebart. It was on the occasion of the "Spider Dance;" just at the interesting juncture when it is supposed the varmint says, "Won't you walk into my parlor?/ Says the Spider to the Fly." The music was too swift; Lola couldn’t' keep step with it, and after several ominously pantomimic gestures, she let out upon the devoted fiddler thus Lola: Oh, too fast, too fast (emphatically) Zitterbart: Madame, this is not the treatment of a lady. The Countess then turned to the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen - This is unpleasant. You are treated to more than you were promised. But you cannot complain - it is so cheap." Music and dance then proceeds, but the audience refused to be comforted without an encore. After long and repeated calls the curtain rises; the spider is again killed, and audience retire with three cheers for Lola. Tonight is positively the last opportunity of seeing or hearing this interesting woman. Verbum Sap

Freiheits Freund (Ptsbg) page 3.1 2 March: Die Benefiz Vorstellung für Lola Montez welche am Freitag Abend im englischen Theater stattfand, war ungemein stark besucht. Die beruhmte Gräfin von Landsfeld zankte sich dabei ein Weniges mit dem Kapellmeister des Orchesters, Herr Zitterbart, weil sie den Takt der Musik zu schnell fand, und appelierte an das Publicum, als Herr Z sein Recht behauptet. Ein originalles Frauenzimmer ist sie doch after all - Ihr Engagement in Pittsburgh ging am Samstag Abend zu Ende.

Golden Era (San Francisco), 19 April 57, page 4.5 The eccentric LM has been playing in Pittsburgh to full houses. One night she was called before the curtain and made a speech in which she "pitched into" one of the morning papers in a style of injured innocence and indignation combined, which fully justified the historical truth of the antecedents of the celebrated Countess. If, in her own words, "the world knew what was in the heart of that little woman," they would be acquainted with a book of human character, fruitful in incident, fruitful also in talent of a peculiar kind, and most remarkable as exhibiting upon its surface and before the world at all times, the feeling which could not be retained within. The speech was decidedly "spunky" but it was said the very article at which she took offense was intended as "puff" direct.

Daily Missouri Democrat (St L) page ??? 6 March: LM shortly to appear

Golden Era (San Francisco), 3 May 57, page 4.6 LM is dangerously ill in St. Louis; poor LM! She has a rough time. [This appears to be true, since the playbill for her St. Louis appearance, of which a copy is in this file, mentions she is returning to the stage after a serious illness.]

Daily Missouri Democrat, page 3.1 12 March: LM in B: LM at St Louis Theatre: The remarkable woman who commences tonight an engagement at the StLouis Theatre has been as celebrated in politics as she is fascinating on the stage. Her life has been a chequered one. She has been the pet of a Court, and the wife of an officer of the "Guards." She was born at Seville, has both Spanish and Hibernian blood in her veins, which may account in some measure for her extreme combativeness. She is very beautiful, and has much talent joined with a violent temper and great benevolence and kindness of heart. Until recently wherever she appeared she was in an imbroglio. She danced once or twice in London, and in former reigns might have shaken a cabinet there. At Paris she got into a desperate quarrel with the manager of the opera because she insisted on dancing CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 4 without certain portions of the costume that are de rigeur. At the Porte St. Martin she danced twice, on the first occasion beating one nymph of the ballet, on the second attempting to stab another with a dagger, which in the Spanish fashion she always carries about her! In this country she has been involved in a variety of difficulties which has been the subject of newspaper report and comment. With all her peculiarities and eccentricities, she is possessed of a kind, good heart, and of unbounded benevolence, one striking instance of which she displays in her devotion to the children of her agent, who drowned on the passage from California to Australia. To supply them with a home and education, she sold her jewels, all her most expensive wardrobe, and reduced herself to the most rigid and economical style of living; and is at this moment depriving herself of luxuries she might otherwise possess, in order to support and educate the helpless orphans for whom she exhibits more than a mother's care....The theatre will of course be crammed tonight.

Daily Missouri Republican, page 3.? 13 March: The LM Excitement: This house last night, soon after the opening of the doors, filled to overflowing and numbers turned away, unable to gain admittance to the lobbies even, as at an early hour of the morning the seats were all taken and a large number secured for this evening and for several nights to come. There was a fair array of ladies present and crowds of excited and curious male spectators, filling every available nook and corner of the theater.....Her acting was not unpleasing, and she performed with a certain simplicity of manner that met favor with the audience.

Daily Missouri Democrat, page 3.2 (Dred Scott decision reported same day) 13 March: St.Louis Theater -LM- There was an immense house last night. The boxes were filled with gaily and fashionably dressed ladies, and hundreds of both the sexes unable to find room in the Theatre, were compelled to wait until another night for an opportunity to even get a glimpse of the far-famed LM. Seats for tonight's performances were secured yesterday, and we may expect a full house again. On this occasion, LM appears in the same piece as last night.

Daily Missouri Democrat, Page ?? 14 March: one of the largest crowds ever; Germans followed the performance with particular attention

Daily Missouri Democrat, page 3.1 (Weather clear, in 40's) 14 March: StLTheatre - LM Furore Unabated - The house was again crowded last night with spectators curious to see the far-famed Countess of Landsfeld. The eager crowd at the box office during the day foreshadowed the excited and anxious throng that pressed around the ticket sellers and filled every available part of the theater at night. It was amusing to see the contention for checks and places the moment the doors were open, and it must have been particularly gratifying to the management to witness the streams of people representing the numerous halves and quarters which their ingress proved had been deposited in the treasury. The drama which had been performed the previous night was produced on this occasion, and with whatever merit it possessed was smoothly and effectively represented. We will not attempt to criticize its dramatic features, as it is more indebted for its interest to the peculiar historic incidents it depicts than to any claims it may have to literary merit or stage effect. Mdlle LM was easier and more engaging than on her first appearance and was repeatedly interrupted by loud applause for the immense audience present. LM in B is to be repeated tonight for positively the last time.

Daily Missouri Republican, page 3.2 16 March: LM is successful in the extreme

Daily Missouri Democrat, page 3.1 17 March: StLTheatre - LM Dances - LM has proved a profitable attraction at this house. Her first audience was the largest ever within a theater in the city; and every succeeding night she has drawn greater crowds than have been drawn by any stars that have preceded her. There is a perfect furore about her, and everybody appears to be determined to see her. Tonight she dances "El Olle," a favorite dance of her, and appears also in the exciting drama "Charlotte Corday" in which last night she made a deep impression. Lola is a genius, and is a kind-hearted, good woman, notwithstanding all her little eccentricities.

Daily Missouri Democrat, page 3.2 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 5

18 March: Spider Dance - We have been agreeably surprised with the acting of LM; her dancing has delighted us. She has the fascinating abandon of the most beautiful and enchanting Spanish dancers, and in very many respects resembles the graceful and engaging Soto, who some years ago captured the hearts of St Louis play-goers. Tonight Lola appears in two new pieces and dances the memorable Spider Dance. The occasion is her benefit and last appearance, and the house no doubt will be crowded as it has been during her entire engagement. Page 2.6, ad says Margot the Poultry Dealer written for LM by DeWalden

NYPL,Lincoln Center, Playbill, MWEZ + nc 9121 page 8 20 March 57: St Louis Theatre, Pine Street between 3 &4 th Last night but one! School for Scandal LM - Lady Teazle, Sir Peter Teazle - Mr. C.L.Allen, Music led by Mr.Chatel

Anzeiger des Westens (StL), page 3.4 22 March: LM auf der deutschen Bühne - LM tritt morgen im Varietes Theatre in dem für sie geschriebenen Stück, LM in Baiern, zum ersten Mal im deutscher Sprache spielend auf. Das Stück selbst wurde bereits hier Englisch gegeben und nun eigenes für diese Vorstellung übersetzt.

Anzeiger des Westens (StL) page 3.3 24 March: Varietes Theater: Heute abend findet in Varietes Theater wiederholt eine Aufführung des für "Lola Montez" geschriebenen und von ihr gestern zum ersten Male in deutscher Sprache gespielten Stückes "LM in Baiern" statt. Der Besuch des Theaters gestern Abend war ein ausserordentlich zahlreicher und wird heute abend sicherlich nicht geringer sein. Wir erstehen aus der Ankündigung das die Dame dem Publikum durch den "Spinnentanz" noch eine besonderen Genuß bereiten will.

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.6 30 March: LM in B tonight page 3.1: There are many countesses in the world, but there is only one Lola. Her fame is wide as the world. Lola will prove a card to the accomplished manager, Mr. George Mellus.

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.2 31 March: Mlle Lola Montez made her first appearance last night before a crowded house - the beauty and fashion of the city being largely represented. The impression she made upon the audience was decidedly favorable. She possesses a pleasing face and manner, which with great sprightliness and naturalness rendered her performance very agreeable.

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.6 31 March: LM in B

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.2 1 April: good but not by any means full house....Curiosity seems satisfied; unjust to judge her on the one piece she has played so far.

1 April: LM in B

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.7 2 April: School for Scandal

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.7 4 April: Cabin Boy, A&C, La Tyrolienne

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.7 6 April: Charlotte Corday, Margot (by Thomas De Walden)

Louisville Daily Journal, page 3.1 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 6

6 April: LM - This celebrated actress has appeared at the city Theater each night during the past week, and is about commencing a new engagement. Her success has been most flattering. Had she been heralded by the loudest praises, and noticed daily in the most enthusiastic manner, her triumph could not have been greater. [This paper doesn't even carry theater ads!] It has been all that even her fastidious taste and great ambition could desire. As a danseuse, Mlle Lola is one of the most graceful, skillful, and accomplished creatures imaginable. But that talent is secondary to her abilities as a strict and legitimate histrionic artist. She really excels in light comedy, and of course possesses the passion and power to enact tragedy in its fullest scope.

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.2 7 April: Charlotte Corday is one of the best Dramas of its class that has been produced for some time; many of its scenes are fine and points effective; the trial scene was very impressive, almost sublime. The character itself in Mlle Lola's hands was an admirable portraiture of the ardent young French girl. The effectiveness of the piece was sadly marred by the confusion and noise behind the curtain. Some of the company, too, were not up......

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.7 7 April: Charlotte Corday & El Olle

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.1 8 April: Charlotte Corday went off somewhat better last night but there was still much noise behind the scenes

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.7 8 April: Knave of Hearts, A&C, El Olle

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.2 8 April: LM, it is reported, has proposed to the Vestrymen of Trinity Church, New York, to give a performance at an early date for the benefit of the Trinity Monument Association. It is not known whether the proposition has been accepted.

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.6 9 April: last night but two: Follies of a Night, Knave of Hearts, Tyrolienne

Louisville Daily Courier, page 1.6 10 April: Benefit and last: Margot, El Olle, Spider

Louisville Daily Democrat, page 3.3 11 April: Louisville Theater: The closing week has been fairly successful - the cold weather of Monday and Tuesday together with Prof. Fowler's phrenological lectures rending the attendance less than it would have been. On the whole, however, Mlle Lola Montez's engagement of two weeks has been very successful - More successful by far than the first engagement of any other artiste. An accomplished danseuse - she has charmed all who are fond of the toe exercise. Mlle Lola's benefit last night was no benefit at all. The house was crowded to its full capacity, and all were awaiting the rise of the curtain, when she appeared before it and stated that the stage manager had refused to take up the carpet as she desired. The management stated that the carpet was down according to her written directions in the prompt book. The audience stormed, mixed applause and hisses - when Manager Mellus appeared and notified the audience that it should be taken up, but not to gratify Mlle Lola. When this was done, she refused to play altogether, and the Farce, A Pretty Piece of Business - not inappropriate - and some other piece...... Who was right in the dispute it is not our place to decide; but Mlle Lola was clearly in the wrong in refusing to play after the Manager yielded. She owed it to the audience to go on with the performance, and her refusal to do so cannot be viewed in any other light than that of an insult to the crowds who had turned out through the inclement weather to see her.

Louisville Daily Courier, page 3.2 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 7

11 April: LM in another Row: An exciting scene took place at the Theater last night, and an act not announced in the bills of the day was played. The parts were sustained by Mdlle Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeld, Mr George Mellus, the manager, Mr Bradley, the stage manager - a strong cast. The facts are briefly there. Mdlle Lola Montez was late in arriving at the theatre, and before she was fully dressed she came out of her room and demanded the green baize on the stage be removed, as it affected her eyes. Mr Bradley explained to her that the curtain ought to be up then, and it would delay the play, but at the end of the act the obnoxious article should be removed. Some sharp words ensued, and Lola rushed upon the stage in a towering rage, gave her version of the matter, and appealed to the audience to sustain her. Of course, they could not refuse a woman's appeal. Great confusion took place, but it was very evident their sympathy was with Lola. Mr Mellus appeared and said the baize should be removed, not to gratify the whim of Mdlle Lola Montez but for the gratification of the audience. Behind the curtains at this time Lola was playing the deuce generally. Mr Bradley was assured by her in emphatic terms and in rather strong language for a woman, which we won't put in print, that he was a "old fool," also to use an old vulgarism, that she would "lam him out of his boots;" that she had whipped better than he was. Here Lola as a confidential proof of her ability and strength to execute the threat in question, grasped her dress in front and tore it to ribbons, and then she went of into a fit of hysterics and was conveyed to her room. The green baize was removed, word sent to Lola, who had somewhat recovered, with the request that she would play her part. Not she - the messenger was informed flatly and in terms shocking to ears polite that she wouldn't play anyhow. Nor would any conciliatory messages bring the willful woman to terms. Mr Bradly came forward and related it to the clamorous crowd that Lola could not be induced to play, and informed them their money would be refunded at the box office. This was done and that classic temple looked dreary and desolate last night. Circumstances rather induce the belief that Lola intended beforehand to create a fuss, as the notoriety would benefit her in other places. It may have been only the whim of a woman whose caprice is only equaled by her unfavorable notoriety.

Louisville Daily Journal, page 3.1 11 April: Engagement ended abruptly.....

Louisville Daily Journal, page 3.1 13 April: Departed - Lola Montez and her suit left Cincinnati yesterday by the mailboat. Her recent flare- up at the city theater has added greatly to her previous notoriety. At the hotel, on the wharf, and on the steamer the ex-Countess of Landsfeld was the cynosure of all eyes. She withstood the battery of optics with her usual nonchalance.

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, page 2.3 15 April: Crowded houses nightly at the National

Enquirer (Cinci) page 1.6 18 April: National Theater - Old Drury was pretty well filled last evening on the occasion of Lola's benefit, and she played and danced as well as she can play and dance, and the audience applauded when they thought they ought. Cincinnatians are a curious people. They are fond of notoriety and hence the reason the Countess of Landsfeld draws such houses.

Enquirer (Cinci) page 8.1 19 April: indicates houses have varied with the weather

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, page 2.5 22 April: LM unusually successful. National Theater - The brilliant and fascinating Lola Montez is still the reigning attraction at this establishment and judging from the well filled houses that greet her nightly, her capacity to "draw" seems in no way diminished.....

Enquirer (Cinci) page 1.6 22 April: National Theater - Lola Montez, the famous Countess of Landsfeld, is the reigning star of this institution, and she continues to draw some pretty fair audiences. Her peculiar eccentricities have not been CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 8 exhibited since she has been among us this time. We don't know, however - the more notorious she continues to make herself, the better she draws - a fact that portrays her shrewdness. We hear it rumored that when she has concluded her present engagement she will retire from the stage and enter the folds of some church.

Chicago Daily Journal, page 3.1 29 April: LM was greeted by an overflowing house.

(Chicago papers largely ignore LM's visit)

Daily News (Chicago) page 6.3 17 July 1893 Old Time Facts and Fancies (by an Old Timer): Mr H.A.Weaver, writing for a local journal on actors and actresses...... In 1857 Lola Montez appeared at Mr. John B. Rice's Dearborn Street Theatre in this city. She commenced her engagement on April 28, the play being "Lola Montez in Bavaria," which I witnessed. I am able to say that this production was one of the most inane, senseless and inconsequent performances it had ever been my misfortune to be fore and disgusted with. She introduced what was called "The Spider Dance" therein, during which the figures of the same and the performer's limbs vied with each other in exhibitions of inartistic skill and native unsightliness. I was impressed from first to last by the woman with astonishment and wonder on the subject of what the moral and mental skill or witchery consisted of through and by which she chained King Louis of Bavaria to her chariot wheels. She also appeared during that engagement in "Follies of a Night" and "Rosalie Boget" in both of which plays she utterly and lamentably failed to exhibit ability and skill as an actress of even the most ordinary talent. In point of fact, as an actress and as a lecturer, in both of which professions I was a witness of Lola Montez's assumed proficiency, I have from that day to this considered the woman purely a "fake." (See March of 1860 for subsequent article by this anonymous author)

Golden Era (San Francisco), 24 May 57, page 4.5 LM netted about $12,000 from performing in California

Golden Era (San Francisco), 28 June 57, page 4.6 LM played seven weeks in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Cleveland, and Chicago, netting $7,000; she is now preparing six lectures for a tour

Golden Era (San Francisco), 2 August 57, page 4.5 LM is rusticating in Gotham; she will soon play "The Hodcarrier's Curse," a play written for her, in New Jersey's largest theater.

Golden Era (San Francisco), 23 August 57, page 4.6 Minnie Montez is Folland's sister; LM has a kind heart with all her faults

Buffalo Daily Courier, 13 July 1857, page 3 col 5 advertisement for LM in Bavaria at Metropolitan Theatre; Ole Bull giving his farewell appearances at American Hall

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 13 July: First night, LM in B, Metropolitan Theatre

Buffalo Express, 13 July 1857, page 3, col 1 ....The bare announcement of Lola’s engagement is sufficient, doubtless, to cram the theatre with the virtue and beauty of our city to witness the “romantic drama” [Lola Montez in Bavaria] in five acts.

Buffalo Daily Courier, 14 July 1857, page 2, col 7 Advertisement for LM in Bavaria

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 14 July: same program as 13 July CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 9

Buffalo Express, 14 July 1857, page 3, col 3 The Metropolitan was a scene of fashionable curiosity last night, and the object of it, Lola Montez, with the beautiful eyes. She has every reason to feel gratified at the flattering reception she has received at the hands of the theatre goers. The house was packed with an admiring audience who fully appreciated the charming presence and delightful accent of the renowned Lola. Of the construction of the play itself we can say little as our attention was directed towards the star of the season. Lola has many graces, which are well preserved, and plays with considerable spirit.

Buffalo Courier, page 3.1 14 July: Theatre was crowded

Buffalo Daily Courier, 15 July 1857, page 3, col 5 Ad for LM in Charlotte Corday, plus two short pieces

Buffalo Express, 15 July 1857, page 3, col 2 Theatre -- Lola’s Benefit was a triumphant affair. The Metropolitan was crowded to suffocation with admirers of her dancing.

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 15 July: Charlotte Corday

Buffalo Courier, page 3.2 15 July: Margot, LM dances for the first time in this engagement

Buffalo Daily Courier, 16 July 1857, page 3, col 5 Ad for Margot the Poultry Dealer, plus El Olle and Rosalie Bouquet, in which LM plays three roles, Rosalie, Achille de Entrechat, and The Sergeant

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 16 July: Margot, Rosalie Bogart, Olle

Buffalo Daily Courier, 17 July 1857, page 3, col 5 Ad for LM’s benefit: The Cabin Boy, plus the Spider Dance and a Hornpipe

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 17 July: LM benefit: Cabin Boy, Spider Dance, Hornpipe (Ole Bull playing farewell at same time in town)

Buffalo Morning Express, page 3.2 18 July: LM's benefit was a triumphant affair. The Metropolitan was crowded to suffocation by admirers of her dancing.

Buffalo Evening Post, 18 July 1857, page 2, col 4 Lola Montez has reason to feel proud of the brilliant success she met with in our city. Her benefit last evening was perfect triumph.

Rochester Union, repeated in Toronto Mirror of 31 July, page 2.7 20 July: The renowned Lola Montez is now spending a few days at Niagara Falls. She has appeared at the Buffalo Theatre as a sort of interlude to her season of pleasure. On Friday morning LM took the train for Buffalo, and without advice from any source, she seated herself in the baggage car to quietly puff her cigarette. While thus cosily throwing off from her lips the curling smoke, she was discovered by the conductor and informed that passengers were not permitted to ride in the baggage cars. She paid no attention to the intimation but continued to smoke as if no one had addressed her. As Superintendent Collamer was at the station, and was informed what Lola was doing, he said she must do as the other passengers did, and that she could not be permitted to ride in the baggage car. The conductor called upon her, and politely told her that she must take a seat in one of the cars designed for passengers. CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 10

Lola drew herself up into an attitude of defiance and told the conductor that she had traveled all over the world, and always rode where she had a mind to, and proposed to do so in this case. The conductor further expostulated with her, and assured her that he was but executing the orders of the Superintendent and the rules of the Company. Lola replied that she had "horsewhipped bigger men than he." This settled the matter. The conductor withdrew and Lola was not again disturbed. The railroad men did not care further to disturb the tigress.

The Leader, Toronto, 23 July 1857, page 2, col 3 The Theatre -- Lola Montez : Lola Montez appeared in the Lyceum on Tuesday evening, the occasion of her first visit to Canada. It was her original intention to appear on Monday evening, and immense crowds came to the theatre to be disappointed, but not at all astonished. All who know the small size of our theatre will not be surprised to hear that not half of those who came to see this celebrated woman could get inside the doors. Every seat in the boxes had been previously engaged, and long before the curtain rose, all the standing places were filled. The pit and the gallery were also filled. The pit and the gallery were also overflowing. The usual number of ladies graced the rows of boxes. Indeed there is nothing in the performance to keep the most fastidious lady away -- except the dullness of the piece. The curtain rose on Lola Montez seated in a drawing room conversing with some noblemen. To our mind it seemed quite clear that this lady did not realize the ideal which the audience had formed of her. Those who know of her only by reading of her dauntless will and spirit, her masculine preference for pet bears and wolves, her exploits with an offending editor or two, and her many wonderful adventures, could not fail to picture her as a woman commandingly tall, stern and lovely. But Lola is neither tall nor stern. Of middle size, with jetty ringlets, full black eyes, a fascinating and earnest expression of countenance, a graceful carriage, a voice low, but rendered very attractive by a foreign accent, and the earnest impulsive manner with which she speaks -- such is Lola Montez. It requires a strong imagination to picture this effeminate and handsome creature as the heroine of so many bold and striking adventures. The play for the night was named “Lola Montez in Bavaria,” and professed to give the most interesting facts and realities of the most romantic part of her life. The scenes were laid in Bavaria, of course. There were five eras in the play. The first is Lola Montez the danseuse; but as she does not dance, and shows a great relish for politics, this era does not create much interest. The next act Lola is a very clever politician circumventing an able Austrian diplomatist. As the Countess, she is very pleasing, and more natural than as the politician. The Countess merges into the revolutionist in a most unaccountable manner, and the revolutionist as a matter of taste becomes a fugitive. Here the play ends. The activity of Lola Montez throughout was what was seldom witnessed: it was natural. No point seemed to be grasped at, and yet everything pleasing was attained. An artless earnestness pervaded her actions, which was charming; and while her manner was not too spirited, it betrayed fire enough to keep the attention of the audience from flagging -- while she was present. The earnestness with which she at times delivered herself of sentences -- in reality containing nothing -- but which however contained the whole pith of the play -- showed how much she could accomplish if her energies were properly directed. It would be no pleasant task to speak of the merits of the play. The principal characters are the King of Bavaria, who certainly neither talks nor acts like a King -- except it be a very foolish one; a baron of the unmusical name of “Newsbummer,” who is in love with Lola, and to whom the author of the play neither assigns death, banishment, nor the object of his love; a foolish baron dressed like a tailor, whose conversational powers are limited to “good gracious” pronounced in the most vulgar manner; a mad painter, who, to give effect to his acting, carries a three-legged stool; and another baron, a princess, a countess and a lady at court all of whom the author causes to converse in the most absurd and ridiculous manner. The plot of the play is unintelligible, and the incidents are unnatural and strained. Cause and effect have been completely lost sight of by the author. In a word, were it not that Lola Montez sustained her part as no other but herself could sustain this play; there is no doubt that the incidents of the life of this lady are far more interesting and attractive than those set forth in the piece under consideration. For like all pieces done to order, it is confused, weak, and so far falls short of its proposed object, that a feeling of pity is ever uppermost in the mind that so talented a lady should play in so dull a piece.

Buffalo Express, 24 July 1857, page 3 col 2 Lola Montez as a Lecturer: This distinguished woman will shortly return to this city and make her debut as a lecturer before a Buffalo audience -- She has composed two lectures which we have been informed display all the talent which have made their possessor so remarkable a woman and so prominent actor in CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 11 the national revolution. One of the lectures is upon “Beautiful Women” and the other upon “The Democracies of Europe,” two subjects perfectly familiar to the Countess. They were read before a select literary circle in New York and pronounced admirable efforts, replete with information, beauty and anecdote. We wait her advent in the lecture hall with confidence in her ability to sustain her reputation as a woman of genius.

NY Clipper article, no date:NYPL, Lincoln Center 25 July: program of LM in School for Scandal in Toronto, final night of her engagement

The Leader, Toronto, 27 July 1857, page 2, cols 2-3 The Theatre -- Lola Montez took her benefit at the Lyceum on Friday evening. As was the case every night of her appearances during the week, the Theatre was crowded to excess, all seats of the boxes having been engaged beforehand. The piece in which she performed on the occasion was styled “Margot the Poultry Dealer,” one of DeWalden’s two-act comedies. Like the piece performed on the previous evening, “Charlotte Corday,” which was written expressly for herself, “Margot” disappointed the audience. It could not have failed to have this effect, and the wonder is how it ever came to be produced. In addition to being a vendor of poultry -- several specimens of which, by the way, were introduced on the stage -- “Margot” is a Yorkshire girl of the olden times: so the graceful Lola not only shuffled across the stage in the most ungraceful manner, but she strove to acquire a “brogue” for the occasion, and, as if the metamorphosis was not bad enough, a yellow wig and tattered straw hat crowned Lola’s toilet. The effect produced by the change was not at all pleasing. Lola Montez, the renowned danseuse, was unrecognizable; Lola, the fascinating, had lost all her charms -- except her black eyes; Lola, whose earnestness and unstudied grace could not fail to charm, had undergone the most ridiculous transformation. In fact, even Lola the politician was a great deal preferable to “Margot” with a scratch wig, awkward gait, bad accent, a turkey cock in her arms, and a mixed multitude of ducks, chickens, and gobblers at her feet. If “Margot” was a shepherdess and the poultry had been lambs, the effect might have been good: But Lola Montez and ducks, geese gobblers -- that is what she called them -- cannot harmonize. It was most unfortunate the piece referred to had been selected -- especially on the night of a benefit. It is in many respects unsuited to the character and talents of a lady who forms the chief attraction of the piece. This fatality of selecting unsuitable pieces to act in has appeared on three or four different occasions. In “Charlotte Corday,” for instance, she is introduced on the stage with the unexplained determination of assassinating Marat -- so far as cause and effect are concerned. This so colors every action and word she utters that we hear nothing from the gloomy maiden, but soliloquies on the disagreeable process of mutilation before death and a bloody fame after execution. Now the effect of this unenviable state of mind is to shut up every approach to the least liveliness of conversation, in which Lola excels. But in “Margot” there is much conversation; carried on, however, in such a disguise, both in the lady and in her speech that there is no charm in it. The defects alluded to can easily be remedies. It seems evident that her efforts made as yet on our boards have been misapplications of talent. From the few glimpses we have had of her in scenes suited to her acquirements, it appears to us that in the light and more elegant walks of the drama she will achieve more success than she ever can attain in her present role. Those who saw the vivacious acting in the opening scenes of “Lola Montez in Bavaria,” could not but be struck with the charm which she then threw over a dull piece. “How to Pay the Rent” was the second piece. Capt. Nickinson sustained “Rattler,” Mr. Biddles sustained the stony-hearted landlord, and the audience sustained themselves by the seats, while they laughed heartily at the oddities of the comedy. The La Tyrolienne dance by Lola Montez concluded the performance. For the first time since she appeared here Lola came out in her original character. The excitement to see this little dance, for it was over in five minutes, was very great. When the curtain rose, Lola came out dressed beautifully, and looking very captivating indeed. She looks taller as the danseuse than as the actress. The moment she commenced to dance it was apparent the stage was altogether too small for her. As it was, her fine figure, agile movements and graceful motions drew the warmest applause. When the curtain fell the whole house clamoured for an encore, which was accorded after a suitable delay. On Saturday she appeared as “Lady Teazle” in the “School for Scandal.” Our limits forbid us to say more than that she was received with great applause, and that she threw much archness and vivacity into the character. The acting of Capt. Nickinson as Sir Peter is too well known to need comment for we consider it one of his happiest impersonations. ... CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 12

After the curtain descended, Lola was summoned back to receive the most flattering and hearty applause. She was led in by Capt. Nickinson. Appearing anxious to speak, silence was restored, and standing at the foot-lights alone -- with the exception of her fan, with which she gracefully enforced her words on the attention of the audience -- Lola delivered herself in words like the following: Ladies and gentlemen, I could not take leave of you without saying a few words. In the first place, I learn that some gentlemen of this city have been at infinite pains to spread a report I am not the real Lola Montez of Bavarian history. While returning thanks to those very officious gentlemen for the trouble on my behalf, allow me to say that there are very many persons in the United States -- Russians, Germans, Italians, and Frenchmen -- who have seen me in Bavaria and other foreign countries; and also there are hundreds of Englishmen who can testify that I am the veritable Lola Montez, and none other. (Loud applause.) On my own behalf, I also assure you that I am indeed the same and identical Lola Montez of Bavaria. (hear, hear) except that I hope I am much improved since then. (Hear and great applause.) Having established my identity, I would thank you for the kind manner in which you have received me during my stay here. (Applause.) To the Manager -- Mr. Nickinson -- I would especially express my indebtedness for the great attention shown by him to make my stay here as pleasant as possible. (Applause.) The theatrical company also deserves my thanks for their consideration and desire to make me comfortable while among them. I am an old stager now, having been on the stage since 1842, and therefore can speak from experience, when I say that Mr. Nickinson’s company -- although most of the members are young -- embraces ladies and gentlemen of promising talent. (Applause.) Again, I would thank the audience for their kind reception of me. To the Toronto press, I have only to say a few words; but it is not to thank its members -- except one person. Let me say to the press of Toronto a word of advice. The stage may be made an instrument of much good, and it is the province of the press to watch over it and encourage it. And I hope that the press will take down my words and act upon them! An intense silence that ensued when Lola commenced to speak of the press, was broken by a burst of applause, as, in conclusion she bowed, and, extending her hand to Capt. Nickinson, retired, frequently acknowledging the applause vouchsafed to her.

Hamilton, Ontario, Daily Spectator, 27 July 1857, page 2, col 7 Advertisement: Grand Entertainment, Mad’lle Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeldt) will lecture on Beautiful Women at Mechanics Hall [outline of lecture] Single tickets 50 cents, Ticket admitting gentleman and a lady 75 cents [brief article on page 3, column 1 of the same issue indicates the author has never heard of LM lecturing before except at the end of performances]

Buffalo Daily Courier, 28 July 1857, page 2 col 8 Great Attraction! Mad’selle Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeldt, will deliver lectures at American Hall. Friday, July 31 and Saturday, August 1: Beautiful Women and Romanism

Buffalo Morning Express, page 2.8 29 July: LM to lecture on July 31 at American Hall on Beautiful Women and on August 1 on Romanism

The Leader, Toronto, 29 July 1857, page 2, col 4 Lola Montez is at present in Hamilton lecturing on the interesting topic of “Beautiful Women.”

Hamilton, Ontario, Semi-Weekly Spectator and Journal of Commerce, 29 July 1857, page 3, col 2 [same article appears in the Daily Spectator of 29 July 1857 at page 2, col. 2] Lola Montez on the Platform -- As we have not seen a notice by the Press of Lola Montez’s lecture on Beautiful Women, we conceive that a Hamilton audience was the first to hear it publicly delivered. The Mechanics’ Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity on Monday [July 27] evening by a very promiscuous assembly -- the gentlemen greatly outnumbering the ladies present. Considerable impatience was caused by the delay in commencing the lecture, but when Lola appeared, all noise was hushed in an instant: every one critically scanning the lineaments of this celebrated beauty. The silence was for but a moment, a burst of applause was the public tribute to her charms, and was gracefully acknowledged. Lola is a living lecture on beauty. She is an example of a beautiful woman. Her face is charmante, especially the forehead, eyes, and nose. Her movements are graceful in the extreme, and the CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 13 way she handled a fan was a lesson to the Canadian fair. Her history is evidence of the power of her beauty, as, also, perhaps, of its frailty. Her lecture on Beautiful Women is open to criticism. It is hardly one to please a general audience, for its allusions cannot be understood and admired without more intimate acquaintance with the literature of ancient and modern Europe than is possessed by the great majority of our population. The lecturer certainly displays her own intimate acquaintances with history, and to a litterateur this would recommend it. Will Lola permit us a few corrections?....A fastidious critic would find fault with a double entendre where Lola speaks of the constancy of husbands to wives as necessary to ensure that of wives to husbands. An alteration of a word or two would raise the passage above suspicion, and (but tastes may differ) we hardly think that in the anecdote about the Parisian ladies bathing in milk, so minute an account should have been given. The details should have been left for the imagination to supply. With these exceptions, there was nothing in the lecture to offend the most fastidious, while there was something to amuse and a great deal of interest.... Perhaps we may be thought hypercritical if we say her utterance is too uniformly slow. Her voice is sweet, yet not without sufficient strength and her delivery would be charming if there were a little more variety in the rate of speaking. The lively passages should be spoken more “trippingly on the tongue.” In conclusion, we have to commend Lola to the community as a lecturer, especially if, as we doubt not they will be, the remarks we have made at the commencement of this article shall be received by her as we have intended them.

Buffalo Daily Republic, 31 July 1857, page 3 col 1 ...Her true character has been but slightly appreciated as yet. She has now entered upon a field of labor in which she will demonstrate to the world the true instincts of a nature overflowing with generous feelings for oppressed humanity, no matter what its creed, color, or condition. In spite of her eccentricities, she is a remarkable woman and will yet live to triumph over those who have attempted to traduce and vilify her name.

Buffalo Morning Express, page 3.2 31 July: Lola Montez in Hamilton - Lola attracted a crowded audience in Hamilton, and according to the Spectator acquitted herself credibly.....Her voice is sweet yet not without sufficient strength, and her delivery would be charming if there were a little more variety in the rate of speaking. In conclusion, we have to commend Lola to the community as a lecturer, especially if, as we doubt not they will be, the remarks we have made shall be received by her as we have intended them.

Shreeve, Nicholas: Dancing Queen: unpublished MS, page 230 Without citing sources, Shreeve claims LM lectured both in Hamilton and in Lockport before her lecture in Buffalo. The playbill for her Newark appearance in the BSB Ludwig I archive does include an undated press quote from Lockport.

Buffalo Daily Republic, 1 August 1857, page 3, col 2 The lecture last evening: Madame Lola Montez gave her first lecture to a Buffalo audience at the American Hall last evening -- The subject of the lecture was “Beautiful Women.” The house was not as well filled as it could have been, as indications of a stormy night set in about the opening time of the lecture. Lola was very plainly dressed in white, with a simple but costly ornament of coral about her neck, and a head dress of exquisite beauty. She appeared very modest and unpresuming, and we thought somewhat dejected, possibly from the fact she was evidently laboring under some affection of the chest and lungs. She was, however, vivacious at times in spite of herself....If we were to find fault at all, it would be at its length. We think the lady herself was over-taxed in its delivery, and although it was very interesting to the audience, still, we think if it had been compressed into less space, it would have given as good satisfaction, and would have much relieved the fair lecturer....Mme. Lola’s forte is that of a lecturer, and when once familiarized to popular lectures, she will become one of the most interesting and attractive speakers of the time.

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 1 August 1857, page 3, col 1 Madame Lola Montez: The Countess of Landsfeldt gave her first lecture last evening to a audience fair as to numbers, and highly respectable in point of character. Her reading was good though a trifle too slow, CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 14 while her enunciation is excellent. She has a crisp, decided way of uttering a word, which is remarkable. Her subject was well handled and all seemed edified by her free and easy discourse on the mysteries of the toilet. Tonight she lectures on “Romanism” and will present some peculiar theories of her own as to the organization of the Jesuits.

Buffalo Morning Express, page 3.2 1 August: Lola Montez in the Lecture Room - Rarely if ever was a Buffalo audience better pleased, we may almost say more fascinated, with a lecture than it was with that of Lola Montez last night on "Beautiful Women." We believe we are speaking moderately when we say that every lady who was present was both delighted and instructed in some matters not before known to the ladies on this side of the Atlantic. And there can be no doubt that the gentlemen were edified by naive disclosures of the secrets of the toilet of the fashionable women of Europe. The lecture tonight upon “Romanism” is said to be the ablest of the course. Her great experience and investigation enable her to speak by the card upon her theme. It is liberal in every respect, and only presents the conclusions unavoidably derived at, reasoning from undeniable facts.

Golden Era (San Francisco), 6 September 57, page 4.5 Quotes NY newspaper: LM, who is lecturing on "beautiful women" in Buffalo, doubtless refers to herself as the standard of female loveliness. After heading a mob of students in Bavaria, horsewhipping some gentlemen and marrying others (it is hard to say which may be considered the severest punishment after pirouetting all over the globe from Ireland to India and from Sacramento to New York, converting clergymen into theatrical agents, ruining managers, dethroning kings, exhibiting everything but decency and elevating everything but her reputation, behold! she has set up as a model artist in the lecture room and proposes to show us what she never had on view, personally -- the characteristics of a true woman!

Buffalo Daily Republic, 3 August 1857, page 3, col 2 ....The writer of this has heard many lectures on the subject [Romanism] but has never heard it more fairly treated and its imperfection more delicately handled than on this occasion. It was admirably written, pointed and satirical, without vulgarity and entirely free from that denunciatory spirit which abounds in most discourses on the subject. As a specimen of composition, we think it will compare favorably with any of the popular lectures which have been delivered by a class of minds who take high rank in literary circles.

Buffalo Express, 3 August 1857, page 3, col 1 ....The audience was not large but it was composed of our most respected citizens. We regret that more did not listen to this effort. We do not recollect to have ever read or heard an abler or more highly finished argument upon the origins, the character, the designs and the tendencies of the Church of Rome than is embodied in the interesting lecture of Lola Montez. We know that it is difficult to overcome prejudices that have been created in this country regarding the name of the lecturer; we have felt that ourself in no small degree; but if the mind will only entertain Lola Montez as a lecturer, her success must be complete....

Boston Post page 2.2 2 September It is not easy to get up an excitement in this quiet town (Burlington VT); and I was much surprised that the notable and really world-renowned "Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeld" made so trifling a sensation by her presence here, as a lecturer on Tuesday night (25 August). Her audience was not a large one; yet I must tell you, her discourse on beautiful women was exceedingly well written and well delivered; and proved abundantly that "Madame La Comtesse" is a woman who has seen the world to some purpose, and (which is very rare for a ballerina) has cultivated her head as well as her heels. Indeed she seems to have been less a favorite with Terpsichore than Minerva. I cannot help thinking that she talks vastly better than she dances, and in my opinion that is her opinion. Her lecture was a decidedly pleasant and profitable entertainment.....

Rochester Union & Advertiser, page 2.7 3 August: Ad for LM lectures at Corinthian Hall: 3 August, Beautiful Women, 4 August, Origin and Power of Rome

La Minerve (Montreal) Page 2.4 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 15

25 August: LM to lecture on Friday and Saturday with performances and lectures in the vast halls of the Bonaventure building of Alfred Pinsonnault; she'll speak on Beautiful Women and Costumes of Paris

Montreal Daily Argus, page 2.8 26 August: quotes Rochester Union and Advertiser on Beautiful Women at Corinthian Hall including quote of review of earlier lecture in Buffalo

Montreal Witness, page 541.3 26 August: The notorious Lola Montez is about to lecture in this city. It is to be hoped that respectable people will not degrade themselves by forming part of her audience. (No response made to LM's subsequent letter, published in the Pilot of 29 August)

28 August: Bonaventure Hall, Montreal, Beautiful Women

The Pilot (Montreal) page 2.6 29 August: LM's letter to the Witness page 2.4-6: The Bonaventure Hall was crowded to excess last night, indeed, many had to go away being unable to obtain admittance to hear Mme Lola Montez lecture on "Beautiful Women." We were glad to witness so many highly respectable ladies present, and to notice with what attention the lecture was listened to. The lecture itself was a highly interesting one, and exhibited great scholarly attainments. A strong tone of morality pervaded it throughout; and as a literary production it would rank, we should say, very high. Regarding the personel of Lola Montez, we would say, it is remarkable but not striking. She has a Greek classic face, and her figure is petit, yet full of symmetry, and her movements are quick and graceful. She has a sparkling black eye, which looks as if it might flash and it gives her face that brilliant expression which intelligence always imparts. Her dress was both modest and elegant, and her hair fell in graceful unrestrained tresses about her head......

Montreal Daily Argus, page 2.1-2 29 August: Lola Montez - The lecture of this lady was numerously and fashionably attended last evening; ladies forming a considerable portion of the auditory. The hall was so crowded that some hundreds retired from inability to obtain admittance.....a perfect elocutionist. Her voice is of liquid sweetness; and her intonation, and the point she gave to passages of a lecture abounding in brilliant hits, and happy pieces of playful satire, were delivered with anything rather than a foreign accent. With the personal appearance of Madame Lola Montez the print shops have made everyone familiar; she is considerably thinner than represented in the plates we have seen, but the expression of her face and the lustre of her eye no artist can do justice to. Her deportment is easy and lady-like, and she delivered the lecture with a grace and beauty of diction we have very seldom heard equaled by the most finished actress. It was much applauded throughout.

29 August: Bonaventure Hall: Paris, Its Women, Wits and Celebrated People

The Pilot (Montreal) page 2.3-7 31 August: repeats review of 29 August and reviews second lecture

The Pilot (Montreal) page 1.4-8 1 September: reprints summary of LM's two lectures page 2.1 Letter page 2.2: We again re-publish on our first page this evening the two lectures of Lola Montez. The demand for them appears universal, and we consequently print a large edition.

Montreal Daily Argus, page 2.2 1 September: The second lecture of Lola Montez on Saturday evening was equally crowded with the former one; the elite of our society, ladies and gentlemen, filling the hall to repletion. Many, indeed, retired from inability to gain admission. The lecture itself was more sparkling than the former....Madame Montez is a keen observer ...... We should do injustice by attempting to condense a lecture where all was brilliant CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 16 and made an impression we have not often seen produced by a written composition. Her elocution is however so beautiful, arch, and free from stiffness or affectation, as to prepossess everyone in her favor.

La Minerve, page 2.1-2 3 September: Lola Montes - Nous ecrivons pour venger la moralite publique. Il ne faut pas que nos femmes, nos filles ou nos soeurs se laissaient ebloule??? un seul instant par ces renommes scandaleuses que la Vice applaudit et la Debauche encense jusqu'au jour ou marque du seau de la veillesse et de l'opprobre elle tombent dans le gouffre du mepris universale - un biographe de Lola Montes. Nous nous croyons obliges de protester au nom de la convenance, au nom de la morale publique et de la bonne Societe de Montreal contre un scandale qui vient d'etre donne dans cette ville. Une aventuriere qui a deja porte plusiers noms qu'elle a tous succesivements deshonores, apres s'etre fait chasser honteusement de presque toutes les places qu'elle a traversees, est venu porter le tresor de tous ses scandales passes, et le gain d'une effronterie et d'un cynicism conquis par tant d'annees d'impuretes, en cette terre d'Amerique terre nouvelle, de peuples pleins d'avenir, qui commencent et qui pour grandir et pour s'eclairer ont besoin cependent d'autres examples, d'autres spectacles, d'autres lecons. La celebre Lola Montes apres toutes ses courses en l'Europe, dans les Indes, en Amerique, est donc venu transporter ses quarante printemps a Montreal; elle a favorise notre ville d'une excursion. Il nous semble qu'il est juste qu'elle trouve egalement ici les sifflets qu'elle a rencontres ailleurs, et que dans ce pays on sache aussi fletrir les ovations insensees qui partout se sont terminees par l'indignation et les huees...... LM talks of people like a flesh market, defiles pure names of families with her mouth...Et voila ce que l'on a entendu debiter en plein Montreal, aux lumieres de gaz, devant une assemblee nombreuse...... What mother who has gone to hear this could return to her family and expect the esteem and authority she deserves?.....The best thing we can do for Lola Montez is not to hide from her the deplorable and tragic path she is pursuing.

4 September: Bonaventure Hall: repeat of Beautiful Women

Toronto Weekly Message, page 2.2-3 4 September: Bonaventure Hall, Montreal was crowded August 28 to hear Lola Montez, the cast off mistress of any number of persons from royalty downwards, lecture upon handsome women. The Pilot was "glad to witness so many highly respectable ladies present" and at Lola's strong tone of morality! The Witness declaims against morality from such a doubtful Magdalen, and Lola fires back at him through the Queen's own Pilot. She says he is one of those "men who, having worn themselves out in the service of sin, set up to be especial enemies of sinners." Even California could no longer tolerate Lola, yet she finds no lack of advocates and admirers here. What hypocrisy it is to laud the morals of the highly respectable class! Praise their manners rather. Lola quaffs her horn of brandy and whiffs her half a dozen cigars like an old trooper. Mr. D'Aug McGee, a liberal catholic, says of Lola in his New Era: - "Democracy being king, is Democracy to parade his painted women more brazenly than even did a Charles II or Louis XV? And what better is it, that many men should become the claquers of an ex-Mistress of an ex-King.....

La Minerve Page 2.3 5 September: Viuite du "Pays": LM a donne sa derniere lecture hier soir devant le publique de Montreal. On y voyait des Canadiens; mais en fort petit nombre. Nos concitoyens ont senti ce qu'il y avait d'ignoble d'ignorant d'audacieux et de scandaleux dans cette courtisane cosmopolite, ce type des maritornes: une telle conduite leur fait honneur. L'heroine du "Pays", la deesse, l'ange du faiseur des revues de cette feuille, doit partir pour ne plus remettre les pieds sur le sol Canadienne. Sans doute que ce virago se sent mal a l'aise parmi nos populations si morales, quoiqu'en dise la feuille rouge; le Canada est une benitier pour elle: notre atmosphere l'etouffe. Qu'elle parte.

Boston Post, page 2.2 28 September: LM succeeds ...... at the National Theatre

Hartford Courant, page??? 30 September: The Countess of Landsfeld, Mme Lola Montez, is announced to give her famous lecture on "Beautiful Women" in this city on Friday evening. This lecture has been delivered in numerous places in CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 17 the United States with good effect. It is unexceptional in its moral tone and wholesome in its advice. Curiosity to see the woman, familiar to all in Europe, to America, to Australia, to the whole earth in short by name, uniformly draws full houses to see and hear the world renowned Lola Montez. See the advertisement. Ad: Friday, October 2, Touro Hall, 50/25 cents (only appearance of the ad)

Hartford Courant, page 2.3 2 October: Lola Montez lectures tonight at Touro Hall. Her lectures are said to be interesting and spicy. The following anecdote about her is not bad, and is decidedly characteristic of her ladyship: It is related that while in Montreal she visited a well-known confectionery establishment on Notre Dame Street, and while there was annoyed by the entrance of several young army officers who under the pretense of buying something gazed pertinaciously and unpleasantly at fair Lola. After submitting a while, Miss Montez walked to the mistress of the saloon and asked, "Madam, how much do these persons owe you?" Her only answer at first was a look of surprise, but on the question being repeated, she was told, "One shilling six pence." "Here it is then," said Lola; "I would not wish that these gentlemen should lose a single copper in gratifying their curiosity staring at me." The officers retreated in confusion.

Hartford Courant, page 2.4 5 October: Lola Montez - This remarkable woman, the Countess of Landsfeld, delivered her lecture on "Beautiful Women" at Tuoro Hall on Friday evening last before a large and respectable audience. She was dressed very simply in a robe of white moiré antique, and delivered an interesting and well written lecture. Her elocutionary powers are very fine - she possesses a voice of remarkable sweetness and clearness of tone, and every word and syllable was pronounced in a distinct and dignified manner. She has lost something of the bewitching charms of youth, and is now no doubt fully aware of the fact that she has been a beautiful woman. In stature, she is rather tall and slender, but full of life, and of graceful expression in every motion; she has a bold and courageous look, a small face, dark eyes, and an exuberance of black hair, which hung in ringlets, nearly to her shoulders...... summary of lecture.....

Boston Herald, page 2.5 9 October: Last evening the Melodeon was crowded with an intellectual and critical gathering of ladies and gentlemen of this city to see and hear the eccentric Lola Montez in her new assumption of character as a public lecturer. Her appearance was the signal for enthusiastic rounds of applause, which was repeated in large doses at different stages of her intellectual banquet. Her theme was "Beautiful Women" and she handled that delicate subject with a master mind, enchaining the attention of her listeners from first to last...... She lays down with strong argument the necessity of following the three rules - temperance, exercise, and cleanliness. The lecture occupied an hour in her discourse, and, we may add, in point of good delivery, clear enunciation and impressive style, we seldom, or never heard a lecturer that excelled the eccentric Lola.

Boston Bee, page 4.7 10 October: LM is the "unquestioned queen of the lecture room"

Boston Herald, page 4.3 10 October: Early application is necessary to get tickets to LM.

Harvard Theatre Collection, Playbills LM - Lecture on Beautiful Women repeated at the Melodeon on Saturday, October 17, 1857 (Boston??) with positive press quotes from the Lockport Courier, Buffalo Express, Quebec Chronicle, Montreal Argus, New Haven Register, Hartford Times, Springfield Republican, Montreal Pilot, Montreal Transcript, Montreal Gazette

Providence Daily Post, page 2.6 19 October: She lectured in New Bedford on Friday evening (16 October), and the Standard says of her "no one can deny her the possession of energy, versatility, wit and talent, and we should be glad to listen to her again." CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 18

Providence Journal, page 2.6 20 October: We heard but one expression of the lecture last evening by this celebrated woman, that of unmixed pleasure and delight. We know that many of our citizens were kept away from the lecture from fear of hearing something that might jar on their fastidious ears, but there was nothing throughout the whole lecture that could affright the finest ear. The appearance of the lecturer was exceedingly prepossessing, though dressed in the utmost simplicity. Her voice is melody itself, her enunciation distinct, her manner fascinating, though somewhat bordering on the theatrical. Throughout the lecture were sparkling witticisms, clear home truths that were received with unbounded applause......

7 November: Philadelphia, Musical Fund Hall, Locust Street, "Beautiful Women"

Sunday Dispatch (Phila) page 3.9 8 November: All seats for her Phila lecture were full, aisles filled by standees; she has a naive style

Philadelphia Press, page 2.3 9 November: The Musical Fund Hall was about as full as it could well hold on Saturday evening. The attraction was Lola Montez as a lecturer - a new, and we are glad to say, a very respectable phase in the career of that celebrated woman. As it is, she must find it very profitable also...... The lecture however was well written, well received, and very well spoken. Lola Montez has a musical voice, very distinct articulation, and a manner at once graceful and natural. She was dressed with great simplicity - in a plain white dress, without jewels or ornament and had a lady-like and intellectual look. She was repeatedly applauded.

10 November: Philadelphia, Musical Fund Hall, Locust St., "Wits and Women of Paris"

Philadelphia Press, page 2.2 11 November: Last night Madame Lola Montez gave a lecture at the Musical Fund Hall, which (an Irishman might say) was so crowded as to be "considerably fuller than it could hold." About two-fifths of the audience were ladies. The subject was extremely suggestive, and the fair lecturer, who confined herself very closely to what had come within her own personal knowledge and observation, did it ample justice. She was much applauded throughout (her particular clearness of enunciation enabling every point to be taken by every person) and was twice greeted with three distinct rounds of approbation. The time occupied, as measured by the clock, was an hour and a half - but the audience heeded not the flight of time...... (she praises Sue and Dumas, dumps on Jules Janin)....It was announced that on Thursday evening she would address the audience upon Gallantry - a lecture never before delivered, indeed, only just written.

12 November: Philadelphia, Musical Fund Hall, Gallantry, first time

Harvard Theatre Collection, LM lecture manuscripts Notes on the manuscript of “Gallantry” [This is clearly the copy used by the printer to set type for the version published in 1858. Only portions of the lecture are in LM’s handwriting.] King Louis is the author of several volumes of poems which are evidence of the natural goodness of his heart genius. King Ludwig’s manners are those of a plain and honest republican gentleman. [at the end, in LM’s hand, “Courting is a mercantile business in the United States.”] [This final sentence has been canceled: “And I leave it to the gentlemen present to decide the question.”] This lecture was published in June of 1858.

Philadelphia Press, page 2.2 12 November: This evening at the Musical Fund Hall Madame Lola Montez will deliver her new lecture, "On Gallantry." She has created quite a furore, and was serenaded at her private residence by a large and enthusiastic Germania band on Tuesday evening. She has been strongly urged to repeat her lecture on "Beautiful Women," and, we dare say, will repeat the whole course.

Philadelphia Press, page 2.3 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 19

13 November: "Hall was very much crowded"

14 November: Philadelphia, Musical Fund Hall, "Beautiful Women" repeated

Philadelphia Press, page 2.3 16 November: This widely known woman has now delivered four lectures in Philadelphia and to apply the usual test in such cases - the audiences - she has made a decided "hit" of it. To use a military expression, she has carried our city by storm. This lecturing fete of hers is certainly the most praiseworthy karet???? that gems the chaplet of her heroism. Of the fact that she is a heroine there can be no mistake, although but few would probably willingly endorse the character of all her conquests. Of her course and adventures in European countries, the writer of this - who has never been there - has no comments to offer, except that they are doubtless invested with such a tissue of extraordinary romance that their truth or untruth can at best be but subjects of vague speculation. But be her antecedents what they may, her success in her new sphere must be regarded as a triumph, a practical assertion of the supremacy of mind. If the eccentricity of marked mental characters be indicative of genius, she is certainly entitled to that distinction. To compare her with this or that, or the other one of her sex would be simply to place supposed similarities in a position to discover their contrast, for no such similarity exists. The style of her entire being seems to be peculiar to herself. That her lectures have had the effect of vindicating her former self in this community can hardly be denied: for certainly the number and respectability of her repeated audiences could hardly be tortured into anything else than a voluntary tribute to merit of some sort; and if the almost unanimous commendation of her hearers of the style and of the matter of these lectures may be taken as a just criterion, their merit is such as the proudest need not be ashamed of. That much of her present success is attributable to the notoriety which preceded her to this country may well be admitted; yet, at the same time, it must also be admitted that if curiosity has contributed to the popularity of these lecture board performances, surprise and agreeable disappointment have been no less the result. In coming more directly to the merit of these lectures, it may not be detracting any from the merits of their author to say that their telling success is quite as much due to the remarkable manner of the fair lecturer as to the quality of the matter. In this respect Lola Montez furnishes no unworthy theme for the student of human nature. Without going into any philosophical disquisition upon the peculiarities of her mental and physical constitution, however, it may be stated (and what the most casual observer can not have overlooked) that there is a density and compactness indicated in her appearance which few persons possess. Her temperament is so strictly of the mental cast as to banish at a glance every idea of grossness. Her brain is massive for one of her size, and prodigiously developed in the region of what is phrenologically denominated the observing, knowing, and knowledge seeking organs, giving a sharp prominence to her brow that ever overshadows her full, intellectual eye. But, then, there is such a mastery of soul that seems to beam from every muscle of her face. Indeed, her power of expressing thought and emotion through the medium of her facial lineaments is most extraordinary; adding to this the silvery sweetness of her liquid voice, and an exquisite correctness of articulation that lends a new enchantment to the language itself, and we have some clue to the capabilities of Lola Montez being attractive in a lecture, no matter what may be her theme...... that noble sentiment, which seems to permeate the whole lecture, that the only true and enduring beauty of woman was to be found in those accomplishments that adorn the mind and heart. Her recipe for the preservation of physical beauty - temperance, exercise, and cleanliness - were sensible, and it is to be hoped will, to some extent, be the means of superseding the artificial cosmetics now so generally in use. There was nothing in the lecture particularly calculated to enlighten her lady auditors in the art of making good wives and mothers, nor did this properly come within the scope of her proposed theme. It is not likely either, that she will make these particular departments of female excellence her subject, as she herself would probably admit that her own resemblance to any such domestic model is no more striking than is the resemblance between a gentle, wooing dove and the restless humming-bird, which on constant wing seeks its nectar in a thousand flowers. But she has only just commenced the lecturing chapter of her eventful life, and it is not for us to conjecture of so eccentric a female genius as hers, what may yet be the achievements of her future. Greybeard CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 20

Yale University Library, Theatrical Manuscripts Manuscript letter of LM to “My dear Dr.,” undated. [Internal evidence in this letter makes it possible to establish that it was written from Baltimore on November 19, 1857 to Dr. Robert Shelton MacKenzie, an Irish-American journalist and author (1809-1881) living in Philadelphia. Another letter from LM to MacKenzie, written in January of 1860 was sold by Charles Hamilton Autographs, NYC] Maltby House My dear Dr. In the midst of the rather dull excitement of this Thanksgiving day I have been looking about among all recent events to find what I have most reason to be thankful for, and as I can find nothing more than your kindness and good will to me I have thought that the best way I can serve the object of this day is to sit down and write you a note - not of hand but of thanks, and I am certain you will be gratified to learn that my first lecture here has been very successful, and the press as you will see are very kind -- I have been industriously and labouriously at work every day since I left Philadelphia in preparing a new lecture, which I shall call “The Heroines of History or Strong Minded Women!!! -- I am really better pleased with it than with any of my other writings -- I shall submit it to your superior judgement, and then if approved of, give it in Philadelphia the middle of next week -- Nihil est tutius recto consilio I thank you for the book -- I admire the intellect of the man but Bulwer in every day life I never liked -- I shall write to you again from Washington - where I go I think on Monday or Tuesday - I have in reserve a good story to whisper to you about Frezzolini. Kiss my little Mayflower and tell her how fond I am of her - I shall soon see her again Vale Lola Montez

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 27 November: clipping of LM's letter to Montreal Witness of 27 August; clipping of Rochester Union of 20 July - on Friday morning LM went to Buffalo

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 29 November:[This letter must have accompanied some but not all of the clippings now filed with it, since some of them are of subsequent date.] Clipping from Harper's Vol 1, No.22, Page 2; LM in Lancaster Pa to lecture on Beautiful Women between 18 and 24 of last month. Boston, lecture on Paris on Saturday evening

Philadelphia lecture clipping; Boston Oct 16?? Romanism lecture; benefit for Charles Matthews on Friday sold out

Newark 28 September on Beautiful Women clipping quotes the Philadelphia Press as saying LM is to make a brilliant alliance in Paris and will return to the US for a short visit in the spring. She stayed at Michael's hotel in Lancaster, Pa.

Playbill for Newark lecture: This lecture has receive the most distinguished patronage in Canada and the Western Cities of New York, where it obtained the unqualified approbation of the most intelligent and fashionable audiences. No lecture was ever given in New Haven which has won such unanimous commendation from the Press, where it has been heard. "There is no woman living who has seen so much of every part of the world as Lola Montez, and there is probably no woman living who could produce a lecture so strangely, almost fascinatingly interesting. Lockport Courier"/ "The lecture is an excellent one, both in itself and in its manner of delivery." Rochester American/ "It is certainly one f the most beautiful, instructive, and witty performances ever given in the shape of a lecture." Buffalo Post/ "We believe that we may safely say that never before was a Buffalo audience so much delighted, and we may almost say charmed, as with this lecture of the Countess of Landsfeld on Beautiful Women." Buffalo Express/ "Her lecture is better than good, the delivery of it graceful and eloquent, and the lecturer an excellent illustration of the subject." Montreal Commercial Advertiser/ "The lecture was delivered in the same excellent style that has captivated her hearers elsewhere, and listened to with marked attention by a vast and fashionable audience of ladies and gentlemen." Quebec Chronicle/ "The lecture of this lady was numerously and fashionably attended, ladies forming a considerable part of the auditory. The hall was so crowded that hundreds retired from inability to get in. Her subject was handled with great beauty and delicacy - the CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 21 reading of it showed the lady to be a perfect elocutionist. Her voice is of liquefied sweetness - the lecture abounds in brilliant hits of playful satire." Montreal Argus/ "Long before the time to commence, the hall was crowded to its utmost capacity by a most fashionable audience. The lecture itself exhibited great scholastic attainments. A strong tone of morality pervaded it throughout. As a literary production, it ranks very high." Montreal Pilot/ "Her lecture is one that all may profit by, and she is one of the loveliest women we ever saw; and as fascinating and graceful in her manners as she is beautiful." Montreal Transcript/ "The two lectures of Lola Montez were crowded to excess by audiences of undoubted respectability." Montreal Gazette/ "She lectures not only amusingly, but in a lady-like and superior manner. There was but one opinion as to the merits of the lecture." Quebec Colonist/ Contents: Section I, Definition of Beauty. Different standards of beautiful women at Paris, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Pekin, Egypt, Hindoustan. Difference between an Eastern and Western European beauty. Ancient Greek models. Amusing list of red- haired beauties. Beautiful women in Circassia and the East Indies. Section II. The power of beauty. The part it has played in diplomacy, and in the rise and fall of Empires. Classic history of beautiful women. In what the charm of beauty consists. Section III. The most beautiful woman of the present nobility in Europe. Names and personal appearances of the most beautiful women now living in the Courts of St. James, Paris, Madrid, Constantinople, and the German States. Beautiful women of Italy; their passion for intrigues. Where the most beautiful blondes in the world are found. Section IV. How to develop and preserve a handsome form. Charms that are greater even than technical beauty. How ugly women fascinate. How wrinkles may be warded off. How the Eastern women preserve their charms. Section V. Secrets of the toilet. Tricks of beauty. Amusing account of milk bathing in Paris. The beauty preservers all before the Police. Schemes of the celebrated Mme. Vestris to preserve her charms. Tricks at Madrid. The cosmetics of the Turks. A wash that really calls the blood to the external fibres of the cheeks, know to the cunning beauties of the Court of Charles II. Conclusion. Admission Upper Circle 50 cents, Upper Circle Loge and G??? 75 cents, Lower Circle and Parquet 25 cents.

Clipping from NY Weekly Trib of 7 November (5 November on other side!!!) Page 7.1-2, date line Oct 24, LM as a lecturer in Boston - LM speaks at Antic???Panorama tonight, Sunday afternoon at the Music Hall. Wears white loose gown, talks on Rome and Civilization. Edition for California

Clipping from Boston Post about lecture on Beauty

Clipping from Louisville Courier of April 11. George Mellus, manager, and Mr. Bradley, stage manager. LM wanted the green baize removed. Manager wouldn't do it because it was already late, said he would do it after the first act. LM appealed to the audience. Baize removed and then she still refused to perform.

Clipping about LM in Lancaster, PA with her poodle dog Gyp; arrived at 9 pm and said Michael's Hotel was not a fit place to cut her throat.

Philadelphia Press, page 2.? 4 December: This evening at Musical Fund Hall, Madame Lola Montez will give a lecture on the Heroines of History and Strong-Minded Women, written since her recent visit to this city....She spoke three times in Baltimore, where she achieved her usual success. She lectured in Washington during the present week to one of the largest and most brilliant audiences ever assembled on such an occasion in that city. Among the company, which included the beauty and fashion of the capital, was Mrs. Colonel Fremont. To the regret of the Washingtonians, Lola Montez was unable, from her previous engagements here, to gratify them with a second lecture. (I was unable to find anything in Baltimore or DC papers about LM there in November, but she obviously spoke in both places.)

Harvard Theatre Collection, LM lecture manuscripts Notes on the reading manuscript of “Heroines of History” [Only portions of this lecture are in LM’s hand.] There is a canceled section that attacks Elizabeth I for her treatment of Mary, Queen of Scots. The following section is canceled in the manuscript: And the virtuously indignant of the “softer sex” should, no doubt, seek the society of the most abandoned roués of the other gender, while they pitilessly crush into the earth the poor little girl, their victim, and refuse to lift her up forever! Ah, there is a God CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1857 ** PAGE 22 who takes the same note of your secret thoughts and deeds that you do, of that one’s public misfortunes. Where is the voice of that one who said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” In a discussion of Cleopatra LM writes: I do not offer one excuse for her faults. I only demand that a great woman should be judged by the same rules that a great man is judged. If the lords of creation demur to this, I shall challenge them to show me a patent from the Almighty which allows them a career of pleasure which by any of his laws he has denied to Woman! The following section is canceled in the manuscript: But still she is far the happiest, and, ordinarily, the most useful woman, who has no ambition beyond the sphere that completes the duties of a “happy and a virtuous home.” This lecture was published in June of 1858.

Philadelphia Press, page 2.4 5 December: Last night the Musical Fund Hall was literally crowded .....the most amusing was that in which suggesting a Men's-rights Convention, she delivered, with dramatic effect, such a speech as might have been delivered on such an occasion by one of the injured harder sex. We have to state, with much gratification, that this is the close of Madame Lola Montez's career as a public lecturer. We break no confidence and do not intrude on the secrecy of private life by mentioning that this fair and gifted woman is on the eve of a very brilliant matrimonial alliance. She proposes in ten days from this time to be en route to Paris. Her return to this country for a short visit may be expected in the spring. And so, we take leave of her as a lecturer and, with due gallantry, wish her all imaginable happiness in this approaching new phase of her eventful life.

Nevada Journal (Nevada City, CA), 1 January 58, page 3.1 copied from Philadelphia Press: To the thousand malicious falsehoods which have been published against me I have never replied; it being my determination to leave the events of my life to History, while I leave my calumniators to that God who has ordained an especial act for the punishment of "all liars," and who, if the Bible be a true book, will find the next world a good deal hotter than they have made this one for me.

Le Courrier des Etats Unis (NYC) page 1.5 8 December: La Press de Philadelphia nous apprends que LM se dispose a echanger sa carriere de lecteur pour une position infinement plus avanteuse. Si notre confrere est bien informe, l'excentrique et fameuse artiste serait a la veille de convoler en quatrieme et cinquieme noces avec un tres riche parti. Son projet est d'aller passer la nouvelle lune de miel a Paris, et puis de revenir en Amerique au printemps. Cette derniere partie du programme nous semble moins assure que la premiere, -- a supposer toutefois que le marriage ait lieu. Mais cela admis, joyeuse vie a l'epousee.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 19 December 57, page 39.1 LM is leaving for Paris in ten days to make a brilliant match, but she should be back in the spring for a visit

BSB LA 39 13 Dez clipping from Diduskerlier??? in Ludwig's files about LM's lectures in Boston

BSB LA 39 31 Dez Allgemeine Zeitung (Augsburg) clipping: LM reported in Paris in Rue des St.Peres-Hof des Faubourg St. Germain. Sonntagabend [December 26] gab sie einen Herren, welches das Unglück hatte in der Rue de la Veille Comedie auf ihren Rock zu tretten, bereits die ersten traditionelle Ohrfeige.

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