• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 Copyright Bruce Seymour

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 5 January: answering yours of 28 December: LM hopes to make a good speculation with the Memoirs; she did not write them herself; they were supposedly written by the Comte de Corail, who takes the facts from LM's stories. Supposedly Le Pays is paying her 90000 francs. It is said she will write of the high society in Munich .....I attempted to see if publication could be stopped. I went to the Foreign Minister, who seemed anxious to help, then I went to the Justice minister, but the free press is a problem. They said they could call in the editor and tell him that if anything were to appear that would sour relations with a friendly government, he would be arrested immediately, and they suggested to him that certain parts could be left out. The editor of Le Pays did not like the suggestion, refused to present the manuscript, and did not want to delete anything. Nothing has appeared so far. It is supposed to appear about January 15. Since I could not do more, I tried to find out what LM generally says about you. Paris is quite excited, which doesn't happen every day, and there is some anticipation, although no one expects them to be true.....Some one I know tells me that in all she has 15000 francs income. She said that is the sum remaining from all her wealth...... She decribed her husband as a miserable thief who was responsible for the mess she was in. It's possible the 15000 francs are from the marriage arrangement.

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 8 January: Enclosure: letter from last night from the secretary to the editor of the Memoirs saying that LM has written Ludwig several times with no answer and that perhaps the letters and manuscript got lost, so she is sending the gallery proofs of the foreword via the embassy. I asked them to wait for your approval for publication, and I was astonished to see that the journal Le Pays began publishing them today! The man told me that the countess was inclined to accept a pension of 25000 francs in exchange for returning your letters or to refrain from using them in the Memoirs.....Because the ministers are still working on the problem, the publication in Le Pays caused less excitement than it might have.

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 12 January: ...... The other thing shared with me was galley proofs of the dedication to me. It seems to be very appropriate that I reject it, unless you there at the scene of the action have particular objections, and I'd like some way to let the Parisian newspapers know of my rejection without getting into the content. I share your opinion that ???????? The quality of truth in the dedication reveals what the quality of that in the Memoirs will be.

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 18 January: Replying to yours of 12 January: I decided to say nothing to the newspapers concerning your rejection of the dedication of the Memoirs. Publication of the foreword made only a limited effect. Everybody knows she doing it only for the money. I think the best approach is to ignore it entirely. LM is supposed to be angry and outraged because she hoped to get a pension from you for not publishing the Memoirs. She didn't get that and her Memoirs are not a major success, either. And her finances do not seem in good shape. I heard yesterday that up to now she has received no help from Lt. Heald. He is supposed to be inclined to give her a life pension of 1200 pounds when she foreswears all her rights against him, but she hasn't agreed yet. Lt. Heald has paid the debts from the time he was here, so she can remain here unmolested. The Countess has so far spoken of you in the friendliest manner; but in the last few days this mood is said to have changed completely. She has fallen into the hands of low speculators, who want to use the Memoirs to their advantage.

New York Herald 8 Feb 51 5.2 Paris, 16 Jan: A journal has begun the publication of the "Memoirs of Lola Montes." This scandalous work, which will, no doubt, attract many subscribers, begins with a preface dedicated to the King of CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 2

Bavaria, which is the most peculiar piece of impudence ever read. I am sure the sale of that pamphlet will be immense in the United States.

Heinrich Heine: Werke und Briefe, Band 9, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1962 Page 381 Heine to his brother Gustav Heine from Paris, 21 January .....Damit mein heutiger Brief nicht ganz trüber Natur sei, füge ich ein Autograph hinzu, daß Dir in diesen Momente vielleicht Spaß machen wird und das ich vorher niemanden abtreten wollte, weil ich es nicht in unsichern Hände, die Mißbrauch davon machen konnten, zu sehen wünschte. Es ist ein Autograph von Lola Montez, die in diesem Augenblick wieder großes Aufsehen erregt, da sie hier bei Herausgabe ihrer Memoiren alle großen Herrschaften Deutschlands zu blamieren droht und in dem bereits gedruckten Anfang derselben sie wirklich bereits blamiert hat, besonders ihr Gönner, den König von Bayern. Zu Erleichterung des Lesens habe ich eine deutliche Kopie dieses Autographs hinzugefügt. Du kannst damit anfangen, was Du willst, nur sei vorsichtig in bezug nach oben. Ein getreuer lithographischer Abdruck würde hinreichen sein, ein für allemal der Welt zu zeigen, daß diese Person ein gemeines Weibsbild ist, die nach Deutschland auf die Hurerei reiste und in einem Brief an einen Vertrauten ganz die Koteriesprache der Pariser Loretten spricht, das echteste Argot der bezahlten Freudenmädchen -- es gibt nichts Komischeres, als zu sehen, wie der deutsche Adel und die höchsten Personen dort Dupes dieser verschmutzten Dirne geworden und sie sich mit ihnen auf gleichen Fuß stellt.....

Shreeve, Nicholas: Dark Legacy, Bookwright, Crossbush, England, 1996, Page 118 Letter of David Dyce Sombre to unnamed person, date given only as 1851: You must have heard a great deal about Mrs James or the Lolla Montes who has been created Comtesse de Landsfeld. She pretends to herself by that name but she is no more Mrs James than I am Mrs James, for you know that I knew her mother and step-father Major and Mrs Craigie at Meerut. I therefore made acquaintance with her and asked her to dine with me. She came, but talked so foolishly about India and her mother and step-father that I soon found out it was all a hoax. In fact, I ought to have know that from her looks, for she has a little idiocy in her looks, and she has been pointed out to me some years ago as one who took a fancy to one of Louis Phillipe’s aides when he was on the throne, but such was the case to please the king of Bavaria, who was obliged to abdicate the throne as a fool for her sake. Then, you know, she met Mr Heald, an officer of the Guards, a rich foolhardy young man. What kind of marriage that was it was their affair to know, for her supposed husband was still alive. He has left her, too, and now she is living in the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, gives soirées and seems to be comfortable as far as money goes, speaks Hindustanee too, but receives all kind of Society. I cannot make her out, beyond that certainly the King of Bavaria, who was very fond of her, still allows her £600 per year.

New York Herald 21 Feb 51 2.3 Paris, 6 Feb: The memoirs of Lola Montes have not obtained that success which the author expected. It is well known that the bewitching adventuriere had for her object, in writing this work, the extortion of money from all those who had been connected with her, and who would naturally being being (sic) named by her in the course of the story. The greatest contempt has been shown at the reading of these memoirs; and all who had received letters from Lola, in which she insinuated her intention to mention their names, have not answered her, as if a plot had been made to act thus by all who were concerned in the matter. Lola has sworn she will have revenge, and we shall see what she will do.

BSB LA 39 Wendland to Ludwig 8 February: Replying to yours of 24 Jan (not in file at GHA) The Memoirs have had a very limited success and she is starting to worry. She has tried several times to contact me through third persons to try to arrange for Your Majesty to pay her not to publish the Memoirs; she did not stop short of threatening even me if I did not arrange it. I told her that threats would not work and advised her in her own interest not to expect to get anything from youin this way, that it wasn't like you to be forced into such an act. If she ever hoped for your help in her unhappiness she should begin by returning all your letters to you without being asked and the ceasing the further publication of anything in the memoirs touching on you. I don't know what effect my advice had, but for a week nothing more of the memoirs has appeared. Even if the Memoirs continue, they will make only the slightest impression because no one believes them.

Galignani's Messenger (Paris) page 3.6 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 3

17 February: After some hesitation, Jacquand decided to paint Heald full-length in his guard's uniform offering Lola, seated on a splendid sofa, a gift of jewelry. Just as the painting was being finished, Jacquard heard that Heald was going to England and brought action for the price before the civil tribunal. Heald objected that the price was excessive; Ingres was directed to examine the painting. He ruled that 10000 francs was fair. On Saturday last (15 February) came the final decision. After a pleading by M. Blanchet, the court reduced what Heald had to pay to 8000 francs, with an equal division of costs.

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 10 March: I am sorry to hear that you have had an accident and are confined to your room. I am told that LM get 600 pounds a year from Heald, or 15000 francs, with which she is able to maintain her standard of life. I also hear she gets 300 francs a week as long as the publication continues. Up to now they have done only mediocre business, there is little interest. People say she wants to leave her modest rooms and get a larger apartment.

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 12 March, Munich: Allemanen in Paris. News of LM? Because she's capable of anything, it's possible it will get into her head to visit Rome while I'm there (I'm leaving for Rome 1 April). Anything possible should be done to hinder her visit. Don't tell anyone of my trip so she doesn't get ideas. Il ne faut pas eveiller le chat qui dors. It's better if nothing makes her think of me. I have read the first four parts of the Memoirs and what she writes contradicts what she told me about her youth. It's so different you'd think it was a different person. What she told me was that her father was a Spanish Carlist who was captured by the Legitimists and shot.....something about his letter, about falling on the ice??????

BSB LA 34 Lola to Ludwig: Letter No. 175 (on envelope in French "to be presented by Monsieur Visino"? - large countess seal, round, with nine- pointed crown - on the letter in Ludwig's hand in German "Received 26 March 1851") 420 Rue St. Honore Paris It is in supplication and the greatest humility that I write you these lines, Louis, to you who once loved me so much and who, without fault of mine, has completely abandoned me - I beg you to read these lines - I beg you to let them speak to your good and noble heart - you no longer write me, and I, poor Lolitta, miserable, unhappy and poor, but still I have dignity, I still have a noble spirit and nothing can compromise the name and title given by your august hand - Oh, Louis, what privations I suffer, I can't believe but that you're deceived by all the innumerable enemies of mine around you - you can't know that from now until the month of August I'm in the poorest situation, that I don't have enough to buy myself carpets for the floor, that I have nothing but a sofa to sleep on, that I have nothing to buy myself clothes for the cold - This, oh God, is the truth - Oh how unhappy I am that you have left me, you for whom I would happily have sacrificed my life - it's a very unhappy fate - Senor Heald is quite ruined - he has nothing but 1000 francs per year for five years - His creditors have seized everything - He doesn't write me and has taken everything from me - Oh, Louis, if you knew the miserable, but honorable, situation I'm in - it's poor, very poor, but money ill come by is always evil - I'd prefer to live as I do than possess luxury in evil - a good gentleman who has taken an interest in me, Senor Visino, who was very successful? in La Habana and is from Munich itself?, has promised me to give you this letter - May the good Lord grant that you are disposed to receive it - Oh Louis, be charitable - remember it's Lolitta who begs? - Lolitta who is the same for you - how many times your name comes to my lips - how many times I look around the modest, little room I inhabit and say, if Louis were here, if he could see my situtation, if he could see into my heart, he wouldn't fail to come to my rescue - I have no money to buy furniture - what I use now was lent to me by an amiga, but in April she must leave for el Isla de Bourbon where here husband is, with all her furniture, and so, what will be my fate, where shall I go - For pity's sake, Louis, help me be dignified - Your letters, which Senor Heald wouldn't permit me to give you, are at your disposition - they are sacred for me - I'm allowing a friend of mine to write what will be called my memoirs, but nothing will be written of Munich. I was in bed for four weeks with this fever that the air of Bad Brückenau gave me, now I can get up a little - Answer my letter - some lines - what happiness for me if you write me a few lines - my heart is the same for you - I still love you because what the world says is impossible, it's impossible you know of my situation - if you knew, you wouldn't abandon me - I beg you, Louis, to receive this gentleman who brings you this letter. Your ever devoted Lolitta(she used the same nine-pointed crown seal in Feb 49; it's worth CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 4 noting that she never wrote Ludwig on her stationery with LM and H intertwined although she did use her seal with both their arms)

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 24 March: Replying to yours of the 12th. You wished to know about the two former Allemanen in Paris. A few days before these two Allemanen had reported here and begged for support and had decided to stay here a long time for training. Because their Zeugnisse were not unfavorable and their passports were in order, I didn't go so far as to advance them cash, but I checked up at their lodgings, found they had been there for some time, and I guarantied their debt to the landlord. They came to the embassy and wanted a loan????; I told them if they said the smallest thing wrong, I'd have the French police throw them out of th country, so they were very well behaved. They complained loudly about how their lives had changed and wanted to get back to Bavaria at any price, even if they had to beg their way home... I sent them back...... Nothing new on LM. If she intends to follow you to Italy, which I doubt, there's no way here to stop her because she apparently has English support. Nobody here knows about your trip. If I hear anything about her intending to go to Italy, I'll let you know at once...... Her Memoirs have had no success and Le Pays business was so bad it has been sold. It is confirmed from all sides that the C of L is not in ..... circumstances.

New York Herald April 1851 Jung Bahadoor back in Nepal

New York Herald 10 April 51 Matador Montes is dead.

BSB LA 39 Graf Von Pocci to L Cover letter transmitting Ludwig's letters to LM Rom 2 Mai 1851 These letters were handed over by O'Brien open - I have sealed them with my seal and give my word of honor I have not read a line - O'Brien behaved as a man of honor, who turned the papers over to Your Majesty without ignoble intent; he wished once again to express to me his earnest declaration concerning the preservation of his own honor. It is my deepest conviction that you may receive O'Brien without any danger and deal with him as you judge best. He asked me expressly that no one should learn that it was through him that the papers were returned to Your Majesty. Pocci Cover sheet: (in Pocci's hand: "To His Majesty, King Ludwig of Bavaria" In Ludwig's hand, in Spanish: Letters of King Ludwig of Bavaria to the Countess of Landsfeld)

BSB LA 39 Patrick O'Brien to Ludwig No date (probably Monday, 5 May): Sire, Your Majesty has done me the great honor to write me a note, expressing satisfaction at having received the letters formerly written by Your Majesty to the Countess of Landsfeld. It is my intention to write to the Countess of Landsfeld today and I am convinced that when the poor suffering lady hears of Your Majesty's good intentions towards her it will do her more good than all the medecine in the world. I know the Countess of Landsfeld's defects, they are those of the head and not of the heart, and I believe when she only listens to the latter, there is not a more noble or generous creature in the world. She feels now in the moment of her sorrow and distress, when everyone has been false and unkind to her, that Your Majesty was always her best and truest friend and I have seen her a prey to the most heart-breaking grief, at the thought of having lost Your Majesty's friendship. I cannot express to Your Majesty how happy I feel at seeing Your Majesty's kind intentions towards that poor broken-hearted woman. I enclose for Your Majesty's inspection the pawn tickets of which I spoke yesterday for I find that I made a mistake as to their amount. Together they amount to 2900 francs. I have this instant received the postscript to Your Majesty's note. I do not know, Sire, the name of Mr.Heald's banker in Paris. But there is another way of remitting the money to the Countess of Landsfeld, namely in bank post bills which will be paid when endorsed by her. In this matter I place myself entirely at Your Majesty's disposal and I will if Your Majesty pleases return instantly to Paris with the money and with Your Majesty's kind message to the Countess for it will be a good action to make that lady happy...... Patrick O'Brien P.S. I will if Your Majesty pleases, go with Count Pocci to the banker and send CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 5 the money in my name to the Countess in the way I mention and I will give a receipt for the sum to Your Majesty.

BSB LA 39 Patrick O'Brien to Ludwig Tuesday morning (probably 6 May) Sire, yesterday I took the liberty of demanding an audience of Your Majesty for the purpose of pointing out what I suppose to be an error in the first note which Your Majesty did me the honor to write to me. In that note Your Majesty says "I send you two thousand francs." I beg humbly to observe, Sire, that I have not yet received any money from Your Majesty. I also wished to say yesterday that the money could be sent safely to the Countess of Landsfeld in bills, which would be payable when endorsed by the Countess herself. It will be easy to have these bills drawn to her on any banker in Paris. On Sunday Your Majesty made me very happy when Your Majesty was pleased to say that you, Sire, would send money to the Countess to release the property which she had placed in pawn. I knew that such an act would do great good to the poor unhappy lady. It was I who made a mistake when I told Your Majesty that 2000 francs would be a sufficient sum for that purpose. I earnestly appeal to Your Majesty's kind and generous heart to send the other 900 francs. It is a very small sum, but it will do her great good in mind and body, if Your Majesty will come promptly and efficiently to her relief. The Countess knows well your noble nature, and she will never believe, Sire, that Your Majesty knowingly sent her only a sum sufficient ot release a portion of her property whilst she is forced to leave the rest in pledge. It is entirely my fault, and I trust to Your Majesty's generosity to release me from a most serious difficulty which involves the health and happiness of a poor, suffering woman. I swear to Your Majesty that she would sooner die, than accept this relief, trifling as it is, from another than Your Majesty and it is that conviction which drives me to despair. Your Majesty will remember that she refused Mr. Peel's splendid presents and the other day she refused from one of my acquaintances presents which might have tempted a Princess, and that in the midst of her distress. It would be impossible for me to give to Your Majesty an idea of how unhappy I have been since yesterday morning. God knows, Your Majesty, that my only object in this affair was to do good, but I am afraid that the only result to me will be one of affliction. But that has always been my fate, in Athens or in London, in Paris or elsewhere, when my intentions have been the best my sufferings have been the greatest. Through my whole life I have been working for others, but my only portion hitherto has been one of sorrow. I have always tried to be a faithful friend and to be disinterested and devoted in any cause that I have adopted. That, I believe everyone who knows me will admit. In this matter I have nothing to gain but everything to lose. In a little time I shall be separated from the Countess forever. Our paths are different. No ties exist between me and the Countess of Landsfeld and her only claim on my friendship is this, that she is a weak and friendless woman steeped to the chin in sorrow and distress. I found her without one to lend her a helping hand and therefore it was, that I consented to plead in her behalf with Your Majesty, confident that I would not plead in vain. In my anxiety to give a ray of comfort to the poor Countess, I wrote to her immediately after my interview with Your Majesty, to tell her of your kind intentions, Sire, and that Your Majesty would at once send her the money necessary to release the articles she has placed in pawn. The precipitation is another source of affliction...... Patrick O'Brien

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 7 May, Rome: I hear from London that Heald can't pay his wife anything any more. He's supposed to be under administration. I want to know if it's true. She's returned to me the letters I wrote to her; they were brought to me quite unexpectedly.

BSB LA 39 Patrick O'Brien to Ludwig No date, Hotel de Londres: Sire I have received a letter from the Countess of Landsfeld in answer to that I wrote to her informing her of Your Majesty's kind intentions. Her letter is full of dispairing grief at having lost Your Majesty's friendship. She says she gave up the letters as she would have given up her life, if she thought it would reestablish her in Your Majesty's good opinion. She says that she has been so long accustomed to sorrow that she can scarcely hope that Your Majesty again thinks kindly of "his poor broken-hearted Lola." She says she is glad that Your Majesty intends the last days of her life shall be quiet and safe from want. Mr Heald has made no settlement on the Countess; he told me he was too poor to do so. Thus from necessity or caprice, Mr Heald may tomorrow cease to send any more money to the Countess and thus CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 6 expose her to die in the streets; thank God, however, Your Majesty intends to save her from such a fate!I wrote to the Countess to ask who Mr. Heald's banker in Paris is, and the enclosed is her answer ...... (Fragment of LM letter on thin blue paper)....me - Mr Heald has no banker here he remits from time to time my scanty allowance through Gill and Co St George St here(reverse side)...friend - your very affectionate Marie de Landsfeld

BSB LA 39 Patrick O'Brien to Ludwig (Bath paper) Rome, Friday Sire - Your Majesty did me the honour to ask me for the Countess of Landsfeld's address. Her address is #362 Rue de St.Honore, Paris. Your Majesty also wished to know the name of Mr. Heald's bankers. Mr Heald has no banker in Paris, but his bankers in London are Messers. Gill & Co of Georges Street. I enclose a letter written by Mr Heald's attorney which will show Your Majesty that for some time past, Mr Heald has been in embarassed circumstances. In another week, Your Majesty, I intend to return to London and to Paris. Permit me now to say that I shall never forget Your Majesty's kindness to myself. Whatever defects I have, ingratitude is not among them; I never forget a kindness. God is my witness that I would go tomorrow to the farthest end of the earth to please Your Majesty, not solely because of the great kindnesses you have shown me, though that in itself is sufficient, but also because Your Majesty is the father of King Otho, whom I love with my whole heart and soul. I have received another letter from the Countess of Landsfeld, in which she tells me to thank Your Majesty for the 2000 francs. She appears to be now full of fresh hope and life. She is delighted at the idea of getting her "beautiful things" as she calls them out of pawn. Your Majesty made a mistake the other day in supposing that she asked for any specific amount of pension. She has not said a word about the matter in her letters. But she now shows all a woman's innocent desire to have back her dresses and her trinkets. The whole burthen of her last letter is gratitude to Your Majesty for your kind intentions and an earnest prayer that you will give her a sufficient sum of money to release the remainder of her effects. I am delighted with the tender gratitude she shows for Your Majesty and I was really moved by her childish joy at the prospect of getting back her "beautiful things." I have cut out that part of her letter which includes a long prayer that I will set her right in Your Majesty's opinion. She asks for nothing more. She says: she will die happy if she is once assured of Your Majesty's good will towards her. She does not ask to correspond with Your Majesty or to see Your Majesty. "Tell the King," she says, "that his poor Lola, is now morally dead and will never trouble him any more. She will hide the pangs of her breaking heart from all the world and will try to end her days in peace with God and men." Here is a bit I have cut out of her letter: on the other side Your Majesty will perceive that she asks for a little more money to get her plate out of pawn. Then in another part of her letter she bids me to say, that Your Majesty is the only person in the world about whose good opinion she cares and there is none to tell the truth to Your Majesty but me; then she wonders that I am not like other men who would trample upon a poor friendless dying woman and thus recommend myself to her enemies who are rich and powerful. Then she gives way to despair again and thinks she is abandoned by all the world as Your Majesty will see on the other side of the annexed bits of her letter....Patrick O'Brien (Fragments of LM's letter): more money to take out - the plate out of pawn you hve the ticket with you.?????show it/ (back side)....many, he knows full well that he is surrounded by my enemies, and tell him that "Les absents on toujour tort" (second fragment): pray dear O'Brien persevere in what you are doing - for you have a very noble and generous nature,/ (back side)...at a ray of ????will no longer annoy you with my regrets - write to me again and believe me dear dear O'Brien your most affectionate Marie de Landsfeld I believe as in my creed that you are the only one who cares for me. (O'Brien uses seal with a tree and "Je meure en je m'attache")

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 21 May: Replying to yours of the 7th: I cannot confirm the information you have about Lt Heald. What I hear is the same as before: he gives her 600 pounds a year. I hear nothing of problems with his financial condition. I could not get more details about her pension. Le Pays bought the memoirs for 24000 francs and has already paid LM 6000. LM tried to sell the last three volumes to La Patrie. I was approached to prevent publication; I said the same thing as before: when the Countess of Landsfeld recognizes her best interests, she will return your letters to you. The the editors of La Patrie came to me and said she was working on an offer to return the letters and the three volumes of Memoirs in return for a pension; he said CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 7

18000 francs was the price, but they might settle for half. I told him I was not authorized to deal until her conditions were clearly stated in a form I could forward to you. But I said we would ultimately need a formal declaration that 1) no piece of your writing was still in her hands, 2) nothing you had written or the rest of the memoirs would ever be published....It looks to me as if they don't like these conditions...... If the C of L is looking to sell, that probably means Heald's pension isn't enough for her needs...... I have heard rumors that she wants to go to Rome. I told the police to let me know if they hear that she really is going....

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 31 May, Rome: Answering yours of the 21st. I want to know how much she gets from her husband. He changes money at Gill & Co in Georges Street. What is she doing?

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 28 March?????(date on letter but it appears to fit here): Acknowledging your answer to mine of the 21st???? The C of L gets 1033 francs/month from Heald. There is nothing to stories of problems for Lt Heald; she gets her money every month. Heald is said not to care what her problems are.

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 20 June, Frankfurt: Enclosure, new information(In French): LM's monthly allowance is guaranteed by the marriage contract. It is paid by a banker named Gille in the Rue St. Georges. She is going to America to dance and on the basis of her reputation hopes to make a lot of money, like Jenny Lind. She sent a man to Rome who served her devotedly because he's in love with her. She pretended??? to have to pawn a lot of things to send this man 1000 francs. She gave the pawn tickets to the envoy who was to negotiate the return of the letters. It is a comedy to dupe the king, who's already given 2000 francs. Answering yours of 31 May and 8 June (not in GHA) I'm sorry that the enclosure to the letter of 28 March???? got lost. The note said that LM would also get money as a widow.....All I hear of her is that she sees a lot of men and is said to be healthy.

New York Herald 24 June 51 4.3 LM is practising daily; will make her first appearance in three months in NYC.

New York Herald 18 July 51 2.2,3 LM deal has been signed

New York Herald 26 July 51 2.5 Account of 4th of July party at Trois Freres Provinceaux.

BSB LA 39 Patrick O'Brien to Ludwig 5 July, Paris, chez M. Morton, 29 Blvd des Capucines: Sire, A few days ago I arrived in Paris from Rome. Immediately on my arrival here I called on the Countess of Landsfeld. I am happy to say that I found here greatly improved in health. This gratifying change I attribute almost exclusively to the effect of the good news which I brought the Countess. She was delighted beyond expression to learn that Your Majesty still entertained for her sentiments of interest and affection. The certainty that Your Majesty intened to place the latter part of her life beyond the reach of want, did not give a thousand part of the pleasure which she felt when I told her that Your Majesty symapathized with her in her sufferings and still thought of her as a friend. Your Majesty is well aware that no one in the world is more disinterested than the Countess or at times more grandly noble in her thoughts and actions. Her present poverty is one proof of the first and the readiness with which in the midst of distress she unconditionally gave up Your Majesty's letters is proof of the latter. But though she appears thus thoughtless of the future and listening only to the voice of her heart, she did not hear the approach of Penury with all its dreadful attendants, Your Majesty has nobly saved her from a fate which at one time appeared inevitable. At Your Majesty's request I gave Your Majesty when in Rome the Countess's address, which is No. 362 Rue St.Honore, Paris. I shall remain in Paris for a short time longer and if Your Majesty thinks I can be of any use in transmitting money to the Countess or aiding in any way in making arrangements for the payment of her annuity I am entirely at Your Majesty's orders. I have the honor to be, Sire, Your Majesty's most humble most grateful and devoted servant, Patrick O'Brien Postscript. A friend of the Countess has this instant brought me a paragraph from the Paris paper L'Ordre. It shows Your Majesty of what lies??? CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 8 the poor Countess is the victim. I hope Your Majesty will not be displeased that I should suggest that it would be a kind thing to send 1000 francs to the Countess whilst arrangements are being made for her annuity. The Countess has bid me beg of Your Majesty to be so good as to permit her to write you a letter - only one.

BSB LA 39 Pocci to Ludwig 15 July (Munich???): O'Brien appears to be an honest man (clipping reporting LM is going to be managed by Lumley)

BSB LA 8,8 Accounts book 1847-54 July 1851 Der Gräfin Landsfeld wegen Zurückstellung meiner ihr geschrieben Briefe, weiter 3000 Franken (5000 ganzen) 5000 Francs = approx 1450 florins

Le Courrier de l'Europe (London) Page 559.2 26 July: Revue de Paris by Pierre Durand: LM is leaving Paris. A circle of well established men is giving a farewell dinner for her. LM will be the only woman among a hundred or more men, but she won't be intimidated. Where is she going? To Lumley in London some say, maybe to find another monarch; like Solange of Haiti.

New York Herald 30 July 51 3.6 Lola Montes is still amongst those in Paris who excite considerable interest by their eccentricities. She is no longer allowed to figure in Le Pays, Lamartine having determined that her memoirs can be of no utility to her readers. She is now occupied taking lessons in the art of dancing, and intends to seek for an engagement this season at the opera. Her royal patron has been so much pleased with this determination, that he has restored a large portion of the income which he formerly declined to pay.

New York Herald 12 Aug 51 2.2 Paris, 24 July: Sunday last races at Chateau de la Marche; many Lorettes and Louis Napoleon there; LM there to meet friends and bid them farewell; rumor jockey club will give a dinner for 150 with her as the only female -- fearless and unabated; whither LM? rumor Lumley wants her or Barnum wants her for the US; she's made great exertions lately to resume her career; but she will try to repeat Ludwig; Faustin I of Haiti is said to want to divorce his black Josephine and find a white Maria Louisa; it wouldn't surprise us if it's LM!

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 30 July, Berchtesgaden: LM seems to have listened to your advice. She let me have my letters back without conditions. I sent her 2000 francs from Rome and another 3000 francs from Munich...... Keep me up to date on LM, her friends, her finances, her lovers....

BSB LA 39 Pocci to Ludwig 1 August: I have a letter from O'Brien complaining that LM betrayed and deceived him! She told him nothing of your payment of 3000 francs and spread the rumor that he was trying to make money from your letters. "I am grieved to say I have been most bitterly deceived." Because of the low society frequenting her house, he never went back to see her and returned to Ireland.

Sunday Times (London), 10 August 51, page 6.2 from Assemble National, account of fight in a carriage at the Rond Point between LM and another woman. LM loses but ejects the winner and drives home.

Journal pour Rire (Paris) page 2 8 August: commentary on Ludwig's poems to LM; claims LM gave them to Musee de la Mode

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 21 August: LM is well still gets her pension from Lt. Heald, and is always surrounded by young people. Recently LM was driving with another woman in the Champs Elysees and they got into a fight, and CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 9 although the other woman was supposed to be stronger, she pulled her hair so that the other woman had to get out of the carriage. No one could tell me if she is having an affair. She is supposedly mostly seeing an Englishman.....

New York Herald 29 Aug 51 1.4 From Musical World: LM is studying at the Jardin Mabile under Mabile himself; she is to go to NYC in October; she is learning six new dances. For the rest it may be as well to mention that, during her absence from the stage, Lola has not lost any of those personal charms which can add eclat to her return. Her eye has lost nothing of its strange and startling brilliance, her form of its harmony and proportion, her motions of their grace. Above all, she is still young, and still enthusiastic.... to appear first in NYC; That report of her previous engagement at the Montansiel has no foundation whatsoever, and that she will reign in the new world as her own mistress, unfettered by Barnum or by any other person.

New York Herald 23 September 51 6.4 Lola going to NYC; more known as a very eccentric woman than as an elegant pupil of Vestris....Lola is still a charming woman, whose eyes have no equal in the world. Beware, gentlemen! Beware!

Sunday Times (London), 24 August 51, page 5.4 That lady of European noteriety, LM, is on the eve of quitting her hotel, near the place Vendome, for Havre, where she will embark for New York direct, having, it is asserted, accepted a liberal engagement to give a series of theatrical performances. Those who have seen her lately pronounce her to be somewhat passe as a danseuse, but that she has good, substantial, and golden reasons for her visit to the United States.

Revue et Gazette des Theatres page 4.3 28 August: Mme Lola Montes, Comtesse de Landsfeld, a enfin signe hier au soir un engagement avec un second Barnum, pour la modique somme de 800,000 francs par annee!!! C'est juste 200,000 de plus que n'avait Jenny Lind.

Journal pour Rire pages 2 and 3 5 September: has a little comedy about LM returning to the stage under Barnum's management

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) Page 4.3 7 September: Lola Montes, comtesse de Landsfeld, s'embarquera vers l'automne, pour l'Amerique; elle comptera a la suite, en dehors de gens en son service, un maitre de ballet, un secretaire, son agent dramatique, un chef d'orchestre, un ecrivain de la capitale, un docteur, etc, etc. Decidement, peu de favorites seront mieux entourees.

Le Courrier de l'Europe (London) Page 700.2 13 September: Revue de Paris: Rumor says LM is going to America to dance for a year for 800,000 francs; that's absurd: even in America you need talent

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) page 4.1 14 September: Lola Montes is making her final preparations for departure for the United States. Despite stories in the papers, everything is in order. The ship taking her and her fortune to the United States is ready to sail, et que tous les jours gentlemen et les lions renommes recherchent avidite le moyen de faire sur le meme batiment un voyage aux Etats Unis.

L'Union (Paris) page 3.3 14 September: Le Jardin Mabile a reuni, hier vendredi, une societe qu'on ne rencontre pas ordinairement sous les ombrages de ce temple de Terpsichore. Mme la comtesse de Landsfeld (Lola-Montes) avait convie, a une soiree d'adieux, les nombreuses admirateurs de son talent de danseuse. Beaucoup de notabilites de la litterature et de la presse s'etaient rendues a cette invitation, et ont savoure, avec delices, le punch, les glaces, et memes les petites cigarettes que l'amphitrion de cette solemnite, a la fois sentimental et dramatique, leur a fait distribuer. Mme la comtesse a danse trois pas de characteres dans lesquelles elle a CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 10 fait preuve d'une vigeur peu commune et qui ont ete vivement applaudis. Une pluie de bouquets et d'affectueueses poignees de main ont termine cette soiree et ont accompagne les voeux que chacun faisait pour le succes de la danseuse dans sa nouvelle perigrination. La reunion etait nombreuse et brillante: on a bien remarque, dans quelque coin, certains minois qui faisait disparetre avec les hommes graves qui s'etaient rendus a l'invitation de Mme la comtesse de Landsfeld. Il est probable qu'ils etaient blottis la depuis le bal de la veille.

L'Autographe, ed. Villemessant, H. de & Bourdin, G.; Paris, 1864-65 Page 19 Facsimile, but different from French biography facsimile: Libre fille des airs, j'ai retrouvee mes ailles Comme vous, avec printemps, legeres hirondelles Je voltige a la scene ou je parrais demain. Auraije des amits qui me tendront la main? Paris 15 Sept 1851 La veille de mon rentree au theatre Marie de Landsfeld Lola Montez "On la dit morte, mais peut-etre n'est-ce qu'une fausse sorti ce qui prepare une rentree a effet." [This same poem in LM’s hand is in an autograph album, MS Fr 175, in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, written differently, also at Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris. See following entry]

Wilmes J. & Prezelin, J.: Lola Montez. Pavane pour un roi poète, Plate 30, facing p241 Libre fille des air, j'ai retrouve mes ailes Comme vous, au printemps, legeres hirondelle. Je volleige: a la scene ou je parrais demain Aurais je des amis qui me tendront la main? Paris 15 Sept 1851 Marie de Landsfeld

Lola Montez La veille de ma rentre au theatre [This is a facsimile from an item in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris]

Courrier des Etats Unis (NYC) of 3 Oct, page 3.1 Copying Theophile Gautier's Feuillton of 15 Sept: "...La comtesse ex-amie du roi de Baviere a danse, en effet, la tyrolienne et la cracovienne, fort galament et fort coquettement habille, avec beaucoup d'entrain, de prestesse et de vivacite. Ses progres font honneur a son maitre, car elle a beaucoup gagne depuis son malencontreux debut a l'Opera. Quant a son physique (style du theatre), c'est toujours la jeune femme svelte, mince, nerveuse, un peu maigre, avec le fin profil, les yeux ardens et les dents etincelantes que vous savez. Ou la reverrons nous? C'est la la question."

Sunday Times (London), 21 September 51, pge 3.4 Re-appearance of LM -- A concert, or rather a theatrical representation, was given on Friday last in the saloon of the Allee des Veuves well known to the dancing world, by Mme. Comtesse de Landsfeld. The Signora, LM, re-appeared as a danseuse on this occasion and executed in the repective costume of a Styrian, a Polonaise, and an Andalusian, three characteristic pas, which those invited to the entertainment greatly applauded.

Le Courrier de l'Europe (London) Page 710.2-3 20 September: Revue de Paris: LM sent author an invitation to a private show on September 12 at 8 pm at Mabille in honor of her return to the theater. She will dance all the pas she studied under Mabille in costume. There were about 300 guests; elegant men, young merveilleux and lots of journalists - nearly all the light press and some of the serious press. Les beau sexe, moins nombreux, etait choisi dans l'elite des dames de la haute et de la moyenne fantasie. She did three dances: tyrolienne, hongroise, and spanish. The dances were not badly correographed but the music was terrible. INVITATION Lola Montez, Comtesse de Landsfeld Prie M. Eugene Guinot de lui faire l'honneur d'assister a la soiree qu'elle donnera le vendredi 12 septembre, a huit heures, salle Mabille, aux Champs Elysees, en l'honneur de sa rentree au theatre. CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 11

Elle dansera avec costumes tous les pas qu'elle a etudies sous la direction de M. Mabille. The dancer wore ravishing costumes. We recall that her debut at the Opera the young artist, who then was called simply Lola Montes, imigina d'arracher the ribbons of her slipper which had come untied and threw it in the orchestra. Cette hardiesse produisit ce que les politiques nomment un movement en sens diverse. Les uns la trouverent delicieuse, les autres la jugerent impertinente. Lola Montes, Countess of Landsfeld, renewed, Friday night, the episode of the untied ribbons, pulled off and thrown to the spectators. This time there was only one opinion among the guests, polite people of good taste, who could only applaud. For the rest, Mme. la comtesse is still a very pretty woman and her talent as a dancer has gained much. We'll see where her talent leads her, and the beginning of the adventures of this excentric artist makes us anxious to see how they develop. [In Theodore de Banville's review of the month of September in the October issue of Revue de Paris, he makes no mention of LM.]

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) Page 3.3 21 September: Boulogne - Les perigranations artistiques de la celebre Lola Montes sont commencees, et deja l'echo des applaudissements qui l'acquillent est arrive jusqu'a nous! Avant de s'embarquer pour l'Amerique, ou elle compte faire ample moisson des meme lauriers qui ont couronne, jusqu'a les ensevelier, Fanny Elssler et Jenny Lind, elle a voulu offrir au public de Boulogne la premiere de ses representations. L'etrangete de la danse de Lola Montes a fait fureur, l'inspiration semble la possesder alors qu'elle livre aux spectateurs emerveilles les tresors de ses brilliants fantaisies. L'ecole avec ses raideurs et ses poses compassees n'a rien a voie en tout ceci; la danse de Lola Montes est de la poesie en mouvement, parfois fantastique, souvent lascive, toujours attrayante. La salle de M. Dewolf s'est trouvee beaucoup trop petite, et l'intelligent et heureux directeur a renouvle, seance tenante, avec l'artiste de passage, pour trois representations; c'est trois recettes sur lesquelles il puet compter

La Nation (Brussels) page 3.4 21 September: LM had three successful performances at Boulogne for English types; Plunkett is the manager of the theater of Vaudeville; LM is on her way to Berlin On Sept 22 she dances pas bavaroise, pas tyrolienne On Sept 23 she dances pas bavaroise, pas espagnol, tarentella

GHA Wendlend NL 50/I Ludwig to Wendlend 21 September, Leopoldskron: Is LM still living in Paris as the Countess of Landsfeld? Does she still have the black dog Turk? It caused the greatest unpleasantness, more than unpleasantness, in Munich.

Emancipation, Brussels, page 3.3 26 September: On Sunday LM danced four dances at Arras; had a poor reception; she has good eyes, great costumes. LM cried in the wings, sick, wouldn't continue despite entreaties; finally a big bouquet convinced her to continue, she was told the flowers were from Mme Combe-Sieyes, wife of the prefect, but actually they came from the prefect himself; she accepted the flowers with a child's joy. She demanded a carafe of old cognac, drank five glasses, smoked two cigars and reappeared to no applause. afterwards she complained about the audience but said she has more money than all of them, that she has diamonds from the king; she insists on being addressed as countess;

Journal de la Belgique, Brussels, No. 270, page 3.3 27 September: Nos avons un compliment a faire au public belge, LM a fait le fiasco le plus complet qu'on puisse imaginer, elle a eu du monde le premier jour; le second elle n'a eu personne. Elle n'a meme pas eu ce succes de scandale qu'elle attendait et qu'a obtenu Mina Lassave, la maitresse de Fieschi. En voyant cette femme sans talent, qui ne saura jamais danser et qui a perdu meme le merite de sa beaute, les quelques rares spectateurs qu'elle a attires voulaient la siffler. Ils auraient eu tort. Quand on court apres le scandale, on n'a pas le droit de se montrer formalise; il n'y a qu'une maniere de siffler cer choses la, c'est de les fuir. En entendant quelques sifflets, LM a dit: Ce sont les jesuites qui se vengent. CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 12

Si la senora LM veut faire encore une recette, nous lui conseillons de danser le pas de la cravache avec un danseur habille en gendarme, et de mettre ce jour la sa couronne de comtesse et son grand cordon de l'ordre je ne sais quoi.

Le Courrier de l'Europe (London) Page 735.1-2 27 September: Beauvallon was set at liberty on 14 August in a judgment that declared he was freed by an act of popular sovereignty: see Le Siecle for 13 Sept 51, La Presse for 14 Sept.

Deutsche Theater-Zeitung (Berlin), page 311.1 27 September: Boulogne: Die kunstlerischen Pilgerfahrten der berühmten Lola Montez haben begonnen, und beriets ist das Echo des Beifalls, der sie begrüßt, bis zu uns gedrungen. Bevor sie sich nach Amerika einschiffte, wo sie eine reiche Ernte jener Lorbeern zu halten hofft, mit denen Fanny Elsler und Jenny Lind bis zum Erdrücken gekront worden sind, wollte Lola dem Publicum in Boulogne die Erstlinge ihrer Leistungen darbringen. Das Fremdartige im Tanze der Lola Montez hat Furore gemacht; sie setzt durch ihre glänzenden und phantastischen Pas die Zuschauer in Erstaunen. Ihre Stellungen und Bewegungen sind neu und von eigentumlichen Reiz; ihr Tanz ist die Poesie der Bewegung, zuweilen phantastisch, nicht selten etwas leichtfertig, aber immer anziehend. Das Theater war zu klein, das schaulustige Publicum zu fassen, und der Direktor hat sich beeilt, mit der beruhmten Tänzerin noch auf drei Vorstellungen abzuschließen, die ihm recht Einnahmen in Aussicht stellen.

Courrier des Etats Unis, 29 Oct 51, page 2.4-3.1 Claims that LM's third performance in Boulogne was booked but no one came so she let everyone from the street come in free. Total receipts 34 francs!

Galignani's Messanger (Paris) Page 3.2 27 September: A Brussels journal reports that three days ago at the Hotel de Suede, M. Arnaud, director of the Hippodrome, wanted LM to perform at his place. He sent M. N.. of Brussels to beg her to perform, offering 3000 francs for six performances; she would simply have to ride about on horseback two or three times around the ring. LM drew herself up to full height, examined the gentleman from head to foot and said "Do you know I am Grand Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa, that I am Countess of Landsfeld, that I have entree at the court of Bavaria, that I married a man belonging to one of the best families in England! Know, Sir, that if I cultivate the art of dancing, it is from taste, and that it is an insult to think me capable of taking wages from a director of montebanks!" M.N.. said there was noting insulting in it or he wouldn't have made it. "Sir, if my friends or my husband were here, you should wipe away this insult with your blood!" She uttered loud cries; Mabille tried to calm her, but she turned on him and M. N.. saw his chance to slip away. Before Mabille arrived LM had been uttering serious threats and had been looking for a knife.

Emancipation (Brussels) page 2.4, 3.1 28 September: has same story as in Echo de Brussels; LM est mecontente de son peu de succes au theatre de Vaudeville; 3000 francs for six perfomances; reply about dancing because she want to and has talent comes after the remark that she compromised her grand cordon by dancing at the Mabille; LM calls chambermaid who shrugs shoulders, then Mabille comes and she tells him to get out.

BSB LA 39 Wendlend to Ludwig 30 September, Berchtesgaden: Clipping from L'Independence Belge of 20 Sept, page 1.1-4, Courrier de Paris, dateline 19 September.... LM appeared before an invited audience at the Jardin Mabille. A mixture of a wide range of men; it was set for eight, but she made them wait two hours. Then she appeared, well dressed, and danced very badly. She danced in rather long dresses and produced an effect only in a sicilienne...... After the dance she got together with some white tie types for a farewell party. She could get only compliments from this group, and when she said,"Who hasn't seen me in an Aragonaise, doesn't know all I can do to turn heads and upset hearts," naturally all wanted to see. So she disappeared and returned soon coiffed with a madras and a four-string guitar and a half full bottle of champagne. Then she started to sing egrillardes things, and drank some wine after each couplet. Thus launched, exhalted, transfigured, she became strange, irritable, unpredictable - She is still thin; but her eyes are startling and her hair abundant enough for the modesty of a surprised bather....Unfortunately for her, she's a dancer who can't dance. Her appearance at the Opera was more sad than funny. This woman who, in succeeding, didn't know who to CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 13 listen to, didn't know what to do with her bouquets????? This woman whom twenty admirers feted with the clinking of full glasses at the beginning of the evening by midnight, in her slippers had to wander in the rain on the boulevard looking for a fiacre to take her back to her hotel! Since then she's tried everything, even quasi royalty, even memoirs. To the public's honor, this effort at scandal failed...... Today the poor woman, abandoned by youth, let's herself be exhibited as a curiosity. She dances Tuesday and Wednesday in Boulogne (16 and 17 Sept). (Poster claims she was already successful in America!!!) LM danced in a place not frequented by the best society and is to go to America.

Aachener Zeitung 1 October still lists small concert after play in the first edition at page 4.3; second edition has an ad for LM

Echo der Gegenwart (Aachen) 1 October Page 3.2 Lola Montez, das vielgenannte Kind Sevillas, der Hauptstadt Andalusiens, dem Lande der Serenaden und Balcone, der Troubadours und Romanzen, der Gither, Tänze, Gastagnetten und romantischen Abenteuer, die moderne Homeride, die ebenfalls "vieler Menschen Städte gesehen und Sitte geschaut hat," weilt seit gestern Abend hier und wird schon heute Abend in unserem Theater als Tersichore den Kunstgöttern ihre Huldigung darbringen. page 4.3: Der Sohn auf Reisen, between Acts 1-2, La Tarantelle, between Acts 2-3 La Bavaroise, zum Schluß L'andelouse

Emancipation (Brussels) page 2.2 2 October: Le Messager de Gand parie en ces termes d'une representation donne par LM au Theatre Minard: On savait qu'il s'agissait d'une plaissanterie ('t was een tolleken, disaient les lousties); il nous faut dire cependent que personne ne l'attendait aussi forte. Quoi qu'il en soit, la curiosite etait satisfie; on a voulu voir, on a vu. On a vu Lola Montes, c'est a dire une femme grand, maigre, seche, osseuse, sans grace, sans talent, n'ayant conserve de sa beaute celebres que des yeux magnifiques et des cheveux idem. Le public desappointu a beaucoup ri, enormement applaudi et pas mal siffle. Mais ni rires, ni applaudissements ironiques, ni sifflets ont emu le moins du monde Lola; elle a continue a se tremousser de plus belle et a faire des sauts impossibles qui lui ont valu un rappel...pour rire. Nous constatons qu'elle a pris ce rappel au serieux et qu'elle est revenue deux fois sans s'effaroucher le moins du monde des huees des spectateurs. Decidement LM a beaucoup de front et apres ce que nous avons vu hier soir, nous comprenons les aventures excentriques qui l'ont illustre dans l'histoire...scandaleuse.

Kölnischer Anzeiger Page 4.1 5 October: Arrivals: Lola Montez, Gräfin von Landsfeld, aus Paris at the Hof von Holland; also Roux and family, Director aus Paris (both probably arrived on the 3rd of October)

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) Page 4.1 5 October: Le theatre de Vaudeville (Brussels?), par example, avait passe un traite avec Lola Montes. Toute la ville s'entretenait des representations que devait donner la celebre amie d'un auguste personnage, et, en effet, malgre des prix presque triples, le jour de la primiere representation il etait impossible de se porcurer un coin, meme au pris d'or. Les etroites coulisses du Vaudeville donnerent asile a plus de cent curieux qui n'avaient pu trouver place dans la salle, et la recette depassa 3000 francs. Enhardie par le succes, et comme disait l'affiche: A la demande generale donna le lendemain un second representation, la recette ne se monta qu'a 800 francs. Une troisieme soiree, dite l'adieu, fut tentee alors, et l'issue en fut desastreuse; la salle reste deserte, et la recette bruite s'eleva a quelque chose comme 300 francs.

Echo der Gegenwart (Aachen) 6 October Page 1.3 Köln, 5 October: Der Herr Polizei Direktor Geiger hat, wahrscheinlich um jedem ehvaigen Skandal vorzubeugen, daß erscheinen der Lola Montez auf der heisigen Bühne untersagt.

Echo der Gegenwart (Aachen) 7 October Page 2.1 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 14

Köln, 4 October: Lola Montez, oder wenn man lieber will, die Gräfin Mansfeldt, war Willens, nachdem sie in dieser Woche auch in Aachen getanzt hatte, morgen hier eine Vorstellung ihre Kunst zu geben. Die Polizei hat ihr indeß, wie bereits gemeldet, die Erlaubnis dazu nicht erteilen wollen. Eine Berufung dieserhalb an die Königl. Regierung, welche in Besondere Sitzung darüber berathen, war eben von ungunstiger Erfolg. Lola ist auch wieder abgereist.

New York Herald 28 October 51 2.1 Paris, 1 Oct: Lola is taking her preliminary gallop through the provinces before commencing her rapid run through America. Of her start at Boulogne, a paper of that city says, "Never since the first foundation of our theatre has the Salle de Monsigny seen such a rush and such a crowd as on the three nights of the debut of Lola Montes." Boulogne to Brussels; a hippodrome director offered her 6000 francs to ride on horseback in his circus and she was irrate. On to Antwerp, arrived on the day of elections; liberal party received a majority for first time in living memory; in theatre she was cheered by the liberals and hissed by the royalists until the royalists were driven out. Encored and cheered to the doors of her hotel. King of Holland is reported to have sent courrier with orders to prevent her from crossing the frontier. On to Aix-la-Chapelle, where squadron of dragoons had to disperse ticket seekers. Students waited quietly for her coming out and escorted her in triumph to her lodgings. Will go from Aix to Cologne, then Switzerland, Geneva, Marseille, Lyons, Paris.... The learned critic, Amedee Achard, speaking of the dancing of Lola Montes, discourses as follows: "One may have seen the dancing of Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Elssler, and Cerito and not know the dancing of Lola Montes. It is something bizarre and unforeseen, that has no analogy in any other choreography in any other ballet. With the Countess of Landsfeldt the dancing is not an art; it is a phantasy; it is a passion; it is the dream of her spring, and the caprice of her summer. She dances as the birds sing, without knowing why." continued report dated 9 Oct: LM got to Aix with double prices and overflowing houses, but Cologne, Coblentz, Düsseldorf, Mainz, and Frankfurt were cancelled when the minister of the interior announced she would not be allowed to dance again in Germany. Fear LM could set off public unrest because she is known as a liberal. Parallel made to Kossuth.

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) Page 5.1 23 November dateline 15 October, Bordeaux:....enfin les deux representations de la celebre Lola Montes. Un beau jour, un jour de fete, parbleu! l'affiche annonca pour le soir une premiere representation de cette danseuse fameuse a tant de titres! Le public, habitue aux annonces prealables et souvent reiterte, n'en voulait pas croire ses yeux et etait tenter de se demander si Lola Montes etait tombee du ciel. Pauvre public. Le soir, le Grand-Theatre fu litteralement assiege et la salle comblee en un clin d'oeil. L'impatience du parterre se traduisait par des trepingements energetique. Elle parut enfin, et chacun put comparer a l'idee qu'il s'en etait faite autrefois; l'heroine de tant d'aventures bulesques, tragiques ou drolatiques. Beaucoup furent vehementement desenchantes et chercherent en vain dans la femme qui pirouettait sous ses yeux, la beaute romanesque, la sirene dangeureuse, la danseuse fantastique qu'ils avaient revee. Quelques-uns temoignement leur mecontentment de la maniere accoutumee; d'autres, au contraire, applaudirent avec frenesie. Le public n'est jamais pour les mezzo-termine. Lola Montes a disparu apres une deuxieme representation, moins productive que la premiere. Elle a pris, dit-on, la route aux Indes.

New York Herald 1 November 51 2.5 (From Journal du Havre, Oct 16) From Salut Public, Lyons: LM to appear in one perfomance tomorrow Tuesday at Grand Theatre. Bills of day will give program. Great public interest. Letter of LM in Constitutionnel, dated from Lyons, 12 Oct, says in the past two months Le C has published two articles about her, one without naming her supposedly from an English journal, the other naming her. Three confusing points made: I do not know how to swim, sir...Would you politically be my master?, etc Says if M.Veron persists, she will challenge him to poison duel "You will not be able to refuse a duel with arms which are so familiar to you." At 4.4, editorial by James Gordon Bennett: quotes Barnum letter in evening paper denying reports credited to the Mirror that his agent LeGrand Smith has engaged LM for US on Barnum's behalf. Claims LM's agent in Paris tried to get him to manage her but he immediately refused. Bennett says he heard while CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 15 in Paris, Smith was in touch with LM but she said Barnum was too much of a humbug. Said she didn't care about Barnum's influence over the US press. She comes on her own hook with Edward Willis as her principal manager and secretary.

Sunday Times (London), 26 October 51, page 3.2 LM Again -- Ghent, October 19[????]: On Monday at the Theatre Minard, the celebrated LM made her appearance. The dancing of the Countess of Landsfeld was of little interest to the public, but they were desirous of seeing the woman who has acquired such fame or rathe ill-fame in most countries of Europe, and in the mode Parisian. In consequence of this, her only performance here, the house was crowded and the interior of the house exhibited a scene more amusing than the stage, when, at the close of the play, Mme. la Comtesse presented herself to perform what we shall in complaisance call her dance, amidst hissing, ironical applauding, and vigorous cock-crowing and yelling from the spectators en masse, who, from the commencement, with hats on, took part in this general tumult. We might say it was a contest between the audience and the danseuse on the stage; LM sustained the fight most firmly. She possesses admirable eyes, with fine hair the colour of ebony; her legs are perfectly proportioned, we might say made au tour, if this expression, as ordinarily received did not seem the height of ridicule. As to her talents, we may safely assert she never possessed any; if ever she had, she must assuredly have exchanged them for the title of countess and her decoration of the order of Maria Theresa. It is almost unnecessary to say her costume was rich and costly; and she displayed a profusion of brilliants; she has resources for all of this, besides her engagement for America!

New York Herald 28 October 51 4.4 long editorial about LM as a socialist; ...But she now proposes to revolutionize Europe, and the means by which she operates are as unique as the end is vast and comprehensive. It is nothing less than a dance, invented by herself, and which seems to have a most wonderful effect in turning men's heads. She calls it a Socialist dance. Like the war dance of the Indians, the armed Pyrrhic dance of the ancient Greeks, introduced by the son of Alexander the Great, or the modern dance of the sects of Christians called Shakers and Jumpers, it is the expression of a sentiment, the embodiment of a principle. It is the poetry of motion reduced to political philosophy. She entertained the bold idea of having all things in common throughout Bavaria, men, women, property, and pantaloons, and making the kingdom one great Fournier phalanx, or Women's Rights order of society on a large scale -- (see Philosopher Greeley's reveries).

Courrier des Etats Unis (NYC) page 2.3, 22 November Account of LM being announced for Bordeaux, together with text of Roux biography; her repertoire was La Tarantelle, Tyrolienne, Andalouse, Pas Indien, Pas Bavarois

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) page 3.2 23 October dateline 17 October, St. Etienne: ....N'oublions, en terminant, de remercier M. Daiglemont de l'empressement qu'il a mis a nous faire connaitre Mme Lola Montes: il y avait foule au theatre, sort pour voir le Pas Tyrolien, le pas bavarois, et l'andalouse, soit pour contempler et fleurir cette celebrite.

L'Union (Paris) page 3.4 17 October: quoting Salut Publique of Lyon: Mme Lola Montes, Comtesse de Landsfeld, est arrivee hier a Dijon, ou elle doit donner une seule representation, qui aura lieu demain, mardi, au Grand Theatre. L'affiche du jour donnera le programme...... Also LM's letter to the Constitutionnel of 12 October.

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) page 4.3 6 November dateline 24 October, Montpelier: Ce soir, Lola-Montes doit nous donner une seule representation; tout le monde voudra voir cette danseuse eccentrique.

Revue et Gazette des Theatres (Paris) page 4.2 30 October dateline 22 October, Lyon: Nous allions oublier de mentionner la brillante recette que Mlle Lola Montes a procure a la caisse. Reparation.

Galignani's Messenger (Paris) page 3.2 CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 16

25 October: reports letter of LM to Veron in Salut Public of Lyons

Galignani's Messenger (Paris) page 4.1 27 October: correction: LM has made lots of money on her provincial tour; she will leave for the US in December

Deutsche Theater Zeitung, page 355.2 1 November: Marseille: Lola Montez ist hier gräulich ausgepfiffen worden. Das Publicum entschädigt sich dadurch für die doppelten Eintrittspreise.

New York Herald 6 November 51 4.3,4 Very long editorial about Barnum's affidavit that he hadn't sought to represent LM; letter from Thomas Barry of the Broadway Theatre reprinted saying LM informed him personally of Smith's offer and why she declined it. Says LM lives at Rue St.Honore 362, and in that apartment she said that she is "humbug enough herself without uniting her forces with the Prince of Humbugs....She probably though that Barnum and LM, two of the greatest humbugs of the age, in one pill, would be too great a quantity for the generous people of the United States to accept in a single dose."

New York Herald 8 November 51 4.4 Editorial of reconciliation with Barnum; anything Smith did is understood to have been on his own behalf. Quotes Barnum letter of 11 July declining to manage LM but saying she could make a lot if properly managed. Recounts LM legend and refers to Ludwig as a blockhead and a nincompoop.

Galignani's Messenger (Paris) Page 2.4 19 November: Roux and LM signed a contract for a tour of the US, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Africa: He gets 25%; 100000 francs liquidated damage clause; Roux her to France, Belgium, Switzerland, Prussia; negotiated for LM at the Theatre du Vaudeville and Theatre National; Roux claims she refused to dance; he got an attachment on her furniture, jewels, and costumes. Her attorneys say she was always ready to perform; attachment dissolved.

Galignani's Messenger (Paris) Page 3.4 20 November: The dispute was formally submitted to the Civil Tribunal; LM performed for Roux in France, Belgium, and Germany (no mention of Switzerland). Roux had applied for the Vaudeville and National, then heard in the papers that LM was leaving with Willis for America. Roux gave her notice; she said she was ready to appear, then refused; he wants 8000 francs damages.LM's attorney contends Roux was her "pilot" and was supposed to travel with her, that Roux wanted to end the contract himself and was using this as an excuse; Roux didn't travel with her or watch over her interests; she was supposed to dance six times a week, but Roux made her dance several times a day, squeezing everything he could from her; after her collapse, he appeared at her bedside at 4 am. and compelled her to depart; he failed to respect her dignity as a woman; she was accustomed to receive visits after her performances and on such occasions Roux would introduce her as an "enfant terrible" and invent ridiculous anecdotes and circumstances. He an abusive biography written of her and distributed it at performances. It stated not that she was a first-rate danseuse but a danseuse de fantasia, born at Seville in 1824, at five went to India with her father, spent eleven years traveling in Hindustan, China, Persia, whose languages she speaks fluently. She got to know rajahs, the King of Nepal; at 16 she went to London where she knew Lords; dancing was always her passion; her wit was so extraordinarily great that she attracted attracted the attention of rajahs and the king of Nepal; her education was most brilliant; apart from her eccentricities, she possessed kindness of heart, charity, affability. Paris, Russia, Munich - history would record her other doings. But he might say that the great power of which she had possessed herself and her political views as to the reform of the Jesuits (here a shout of laughter) occasioned her departure from Bavaria. "Explain who can, but no one can, her burning brain and eccentric character, which have rendered her so celebrated; she has yet only run the half of her career, for she leaves in November for America - and - God knows the rest!" LM contends if she is to be treated as a wild animal shown at a fair, she contented herself with shrugging her shoulders in disgust, but when she saw the veil which covered her private acts raised, she expressed loud indignation and said to Roux "It is lucky for you, sir, my husband is not here, for he would break your head!" Roux declared himself insulted and took flight. LM came to Paris on 6 November. She intended to dance if Roux found CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 17 anything, then leave on the 20th for America. On the 10th Roux notified her she would have to fulfill her engagement. On the 12th he asked her to name an arbitrator. She did, he commenced action, got an attachment by a false declaration after she told him her costumes would leave on the 15th. The court decided Roux had had no serious agreement with any theatre except perhaps the National, but he didn't notify LM of it, so she wasn't bound. Decision for LM, costs to Roux.

New York Herald 28 November 51 2.2 LM and Kossuth both left Le Havre on the 20th November in the same ship. "What a queer conjunction!"

New York Herald 29 November 51 6.2,3 LM has left Paris; was well received on her tour, particularly at Bordeaux.

Courrier des Etats Unis (NYC) page 2.4 27 November: Yesterday I was together with LM for the first time.....je lui demandais comment elle n'avait pas redoute le voisinage de cette imposante figure de Kossuth, mais elle me repondit qu'elle trouvait son compte a debarquer inapercu, a l'ombre de cet illustre compagnon de voyage. Elle puisse dans cette obscurite momentanee un repos qui lui sera necessaire. C'est une femme de beaucoup d'esprit et de sens que LM, malgre les excentricites de son exitence romanesque. Il est vrai que ces excentricites ont ete grossies et exagerees a plaisir par le chronique, d'apres l'axiome: qu'on prete surtout aux riches. Ainsi...... looking forward to being welcomed in the US. Plans to do English-language drama, too, her debut in this genre. Countess admits she's back on the stage because she needs the money; her husband took all her money and the current King of Bavaria confiscated everything she had there...... She's coming for both political and artistic freedom after Cologne.....The people of Cologne told her "Come back in 1852 and you can dance everywhere."

NY Post, Page 2.1-3 5 December: Humboldt arrived at the quarantine station at 1 am. It left Le Havre on 20 November, Cowes at midnight on the same day; Kossuth suffered the whole voyage from seasickness and was not able to mingle with the other passengers. There was an entertainment last Wednesday evening but he made no reply to the complimentary toast to him and soon retired.

NP Willis was involved in the Forrest Divorce Case.

NYPL, Microfilm of Passenger Lists Humboldt passengers: LM, 33 years old, from Spain, country of destination unknown; female maid, Anna Behr, 25 years old, from Germany; Willis listed as 29 years old.

New York Herald 5 December 1851 2.5 Lola Montes -- (on passenger list with her maid) This extraordinary woman, accompanied by her agent, Mr. Edward Willis, brother of N.P.Willis, arrived in the Humboldt and was present in the cabin when the address was delivered to Kossuth. She passed some smart jokes upon the whole affair, and a gentleman infromed our reporter she has declared Kossuth to be a great humbug. It is stated they had some conversations during the passage. The Countess of Landsfeldt was a prodigous favorite among the gentlemen passengers during the passage. She kept them continually in roars of laughter. She is much lighter in form, and more refined in her features, than she is represented in the paintings. She has a remarkably fine pair of eyes. No doubt she will create a furore of her own as well as Kossuth, whose rival she is for popularity.

New York Herald 6 December 51 2.3 LM is at New York Hotel, run by Mr. Monnot. Five hundred men in Paris offered her 100 francs each for a private performance ($10,000). Has selected Barry of the Broadway as her theatrical advisor. Stories of her motivation for coming before the public are exaggerated. She is not of independent means. If she were, she would not have embraced the toils of an arduous profession. "If I was a woman of that description which I am presented, would I be compelled to go on the stage to earn a livelihood?" Box was reserved last night for her at the Broadway theatre, but she was too tired to attend. CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 18

New York Herald 8 December 51 5.3 Letter from Brussels dated 15 November 51 from Henry Howard Paul, editor of London American Magazine. Says LeGrand Smith told him, an engagement was pending between Smith and LM and only "terms" prevented immediate consummation. Subsequently he had a note from Smith saying all negotiations were at an end, but by then notices had already appeared (with Smith's consent) in Boston papers.

New York Herald 13 December 51 2.3 Coming Debuts....Lola Montes has many strings to her bow. If she does not succeed in dancing, she will try comedy; if she fails in comedy, she can give lectures on any subject; and if she were to fail in giving lectures, she could fall back on the noble cause of Bavarian liberty and its rescue from the influence of the Jesuits by getting up a subscription for the coming revolution in Munich.

NY Morning Express, page 2.7 6 December: Lola Montez is to open at the Broadway Theatre next Monday; Willis is her agent; she was at the Broadway theatre incognito last night

Courrier des Etats Unis (NYC) page 2.3-5 13 December: Details of the LM-Roux dispute; says that Roux told her before leaving Bordeaux on Nov 1 that they would go to the US on Nov 20; on Nov 10 Roux told her to come by his office to indemnify him and takes orders. On Nov 11 LM told him to call any day between 10 and 11. On Nov 12 Roux summoned her to arbitration and sued for 5000 franc, with hearing. On Nov 13 LM says she is packing her costumes on Nov 15 and that the boat leaves from Le Havre on Nov 20. When LM dispatches costumes, Roux attaches them, but the attachment is dissolved. On Nov 18 Roux breaks off the arbitration. LM's attorney is Blot-Lequesne, Roux's is Ernest Desmarets.

Moore, Lillian: George Washington Smith in Dance Index, Vol IV, 1945 Smith had been maitre de ballet for Fanny Elssler's tour of the US; page 97.2, GWS choreographed LM's Pas de Matelot; p 135, S arranged Betley from story and probably music of "Le Chalet" comic opera of 1834 by Adam. S as Starner, Gaetano Neri as Daniel, the hero; page 111.1, S did Jour de Carneval at Seville for LM, Donna Inez soon changed to Mariquita, Smith as Marco; page 111.2, S choreographed Diana and her Nymphs, S arranged Spider Dance as Pas de Deux and danced it with her; page 112 claims Smith spanked LM in Philadelphia

Harvard Theatre Collection, manuscript note in LM’s hand "To Wm. Meade Bros a souvenir of Friendship from Marie de Landsfeld Heald "Lola Montez" New York Dec 22 1851"

New York Herald 23 December 51 4.4 Lola Montes, lacking only the sanctification of the church and a pair of wings to make her a complete angel -- Lola Montes -- the bright-eyed Lola, the piquant, witty, handsome, and sparkling Lola -- will also, with the departure of Kossuth, come out, like the moon emerging from a total eclipse in a clear sky, and the more brilliant for the late obscuration.

New York Herald 25 December 51 4.5 LM to make her debut in two characters; many of the best seats sold, but rest to be auctioned. M.Roux about to bring breach action. LM will be her own attorney. at 7.4,5 Evening with LM; first of three to appear (other two never appeared); LM lived in Paris in entresol; party with Germans, Hungarians, Spaniards, East Indians, French; LM talked to Indians in their own language and showed them her perfect little pistols, 1 1/2 inches long; LM sang "Duc de Guise," old troubadour song, seguidilla; LM takes no more than two puffs on a cigarette, lights a dozen in thirty minutes. Born in Seville of Spanish mother and officer, later Adj Gen of India; educated in England, speaks the languages of all countries but speaks none perfectly, although she makes fewer mistakes in English than in other languages; in speaking French she adopts the accent of the person with whom she is speaking. she is medium height, slight figure, small foot, high instep. Looks more like a child of 15 than a CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 19 woman of 27; her eyes are her most striking feature, large blue gray (her only Irish feature), jet black eyebrows and hair; her hair is worn over the ear, is incredible for its length and thickness; acquiline nose with small nostrils; short upper lip, small mouth turned down, small regular mouth; a Parisian said "most beautiful mice teeth I've ever seen in a woman." Listens with smile and half open mouth, mobile face, constant play of expression; her features other than her eyes are small, almost infantine. Tells story: Lord Brougham drove her one Sunday to Richmond where she met Metternich; she was astonished to meet him. "Well, Countess, I am astonished at but one thing; not at your winning a position as the head of the government in Bavaria, but at your being able to keep it so long against all the batteries that were brought to bear against you." "If you would like to have the secret I will give it to you because I always told the truth and acted above board and honestly while you did the reverse."

New York Herald 26 December 51 2.3 LM occupies a private palace in Waverly Place, elegantly furnished with blue and gold furniture.

New York Herald 27 December 51 2.2 Ticket auction for premiere

New York Herald 29 December 51 1.6 LM makes her debut tonight at reasonable prices. at 2.2: This evening Lola Montes makes her first appearance as danseuse at the Broadway Theatre, and we have some doubts whether the public will not be disappointed with her dancing. After curiosity is satisfied, in one or two nights, she must rely on her merits in dancing alone; the excitement will all subside, and she will be regarded as merely a second or third rate artist. She is by no means equal to Fanny Elssler, Cerito, or any other great artist either as danseuse or in point of beauty or elegance. Her great forte is not in public, but in private and social circles, where she shines as an intellectual woman, by her dashing powers of conversation, salient, impulsive wit, and smart repartee. She has no room or opportunity to show off those peculiarities in a ballet, and on the stage there will be little attraction about her except the mere circumstance of her being a sort of historical and romantic character, and that in connection with her wild career, the simple truth is stranger than any fiction. The curiosity will be very speedily gratified, and the public will then begin to think no more of her than any other "nine day wonder." She should give lectures -- deliver orations -- or turn counsel and lawyer, in her own case. She is already nearly as good a lawyer as some of those who now figure largely at the bar in popular cases.

New York Herald 30 December 51 4.2,3 Debut of Lola Montes; The Legal Proceedings Against Her: The long expected debut of Lola Montes as a danseuse came off last night at the Broadway Theater. Expectation was on tip-toe. The building was crowded from the ceiling to the stage. The audience consisted almost entirely of gentlemen. We never saw so few ladies, and so many of the opposite sex present in any piece of amusement on Broadway. There certainly were not more than 30 females in the house, but they appeared to be all women of respectability. The general absence of the sex seems strange enough, as they have attended in great numbers the performances of other dancers, but superior in moral worth (sic), though not so notorious as the Countess of Landsfeldt. There was one thing, too, rather remarkable about her dancing last night -- it was the most modest performance of public dancers we have seen for a length of time. She has a guileless, innocent look that seems at variance with her reputation. After the performance of a pretty comedy, the curtain remained down for a length of time, when the audience became very impatient and excited, and hissed the orchestra, which was trying to divert them during the interval. At length the ringing of the bell announced that the curtain was about to rise, when a burst of applause followed, and a cry of "there!" When the curtain was raised, a very fine tableaux of the whole corps de ballet presented itself, amidst loud cheers, and many eyes searched around for Lola Montes but could not find her. In a few minutes she made her appearance on the staircase representing a winding path down the mountain, when she was greeted with tremendous applause. She remained on the spot for sometime, curseying low to the audience, who continued to applaud her for several minutes. She then descendec gracefully, and on reaching the stage, was received with another burst of applause, which she again acknowledged witha lady-like bow. She was neatly dressed as a Tyrolean; she look very thin and girlish -- far younger than she is, in fact, not more than 16 years. She has an uncommon face; it is of an aristocratic CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 20 mould and mien, and there is something fascinating in the expression. But she is not so very beautiful after all. Her eye is a fine blue, which is set off by beautifully arched eyebrows, but her mouth is by no means pretty. Her chin and neck, however, are fine. Her form is fragile and slender, and her movements and attitudes are very graceful. There is a natural ease in her step which is charming. Neither her legs nor feet have anything remarkable about them. Her leg is rather common, and her foot certainly neither andalusian nor diminuitive. The colored engravings in the shop windows are not like her. She is not so en bon point or so fleshy as they represent her. She appeared as "Betly" in the ballet of the "Tyrolean," composed expressly for her. Her first dance was the Tyrolienne, and was well received, and warmly applauded in many points. Several bouquets were thrown to her by ladies, from the boxes at the conclusion of this dance. The next dance was a "pas de deux" in which Neri as Daniel, and Lola Montes, danced together. On entering the stage this time she did not receive any applause, and Neri at the close, was applauded far more enthusiastically by the audience, doubtless because he was a far better dancer. She made a false step in this dance which brought down a slight hiss from one or two of the audience. "The Mountain Dance," by the corps de ballet, followed, and after its conclusion there was considerable delay in her returning to the stage, when an idea seemed to prevail that she would not come back. There was some hissing in consequence. At length she appeared in a new costume, which accounted for the delay. She looked well and was loudly applauded. Her dress consisted of a very pretty Hungarian satin skirt, striped with white and red, with a military black velvet jacket faced with gold and a pretty red hat with a feather. In this dance she was more successful than in the other two. It was a sort of war dance in which she exhibited the martial bearing and military tread remarkably well. She lead a company of soldiers off the stage in a sort of dancing step and was enthusiastically applauded. The whole performance lasted exactly forty minutes, and just concluded at nine o'clock. When the curtain fell, she was called for with great vehemence, and on coming in front, was received with great cheering. She said in a weak voice and rather foreign accent, pronouncing the article "the" as "de," "Ladies and Gentlemen -- I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the very kind reception you have given me, a poor stranger in your noble land." Then she withdrew. Her dances were short and simple, and she performed nothing that could be called a feat. None of these performances were her peculiar Spanish dances, in which she excels. As a danseuse, she is decidedly inferior to Cerito, Madame Augusta, and others, but there is a nameless grace of nature about her person and movements, which, with her history, gives her an attraction that a better artist could not command, but which, however, is not destined to be very lasting. It was apprehended during the afternoon that Roux and a party would come to the theatre and raise such an opposition as to prevent her performing, but there was nothing of the kind -- all passed off quietly.

Contract with Roux: Lola Montes, 362 Rue St. Honore, Messrs. Roux & Co, 21 Rue Lepelletier. Art 1: Mme. Lola Montes wishing to make a journey to several places in France, also to America, Havana, Brazil, Mexico, Chili, Peru, and Africa, is desirous that M. Roux should accompany her, to make engagements with managers, to prepare and get up soirees, have the bills made out, precede her, stay behind in various cities where his precence might be required or act for the best of their mutual interests, and all such engagements shall be accepted by Mme. Lola Montez. (In lieu of all salary and expenses, Roux gets 25% of all LM's receipts.) Art 2: Contract from 15 Sept to 15 March in France, America, Mexico, Brazil, etc. Art 3: Lola Montes binds herself to dance six times a week, oftener if possible. Each of two, three, or four pas, selected by Roux from the attached catalog. She will pay for costumes and music and is bound to dance in every city Roux indicates. Art 4: Payments will be made every night, returns signed in triplicate by the director and treasurer of the theatre. If during the journey or on return from the provinces there should be a possibility of one or more nights at a theatre in Paris, Lola Montes shall comply. Art 5: If M. Mabile, maitre de ballet, who is to accompany us in France, shall not be able to go with us to America, Mme. Lola Montes shall accept any other maitre de ballet Roux shall indicate or Mabile or if none can be procured, she shall dispense with such service. Art 6: Roux gets no remuneration for traveling, publicity, or writing. Art 7: The penalty for breach is 100,000 francs, due on breach in any country or jurisdiction. 26 August 51 in duplicate /s/ Roux & Co Marie, Comtesse de Landsfeld Heald Lola Montez CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 1851 **** PAGE 21

Howe & Treadwell, 195 Broadway for Roux notice given to Marshall, notice to LM that Roux is at Delmonico's Hotel, ready to provide her with a theatre Benjamin Galbraith, counsel to LM and Marshall, writes in reply he sees nothing preventing the engagement at the Broadway Theatre and says Roux will be held responsible for efforts to prevent the engagement

In NYTimes of 19, 22, 24 Dec 5 1 Grass Valley Gold Mining Co 100K ? 22 Dec The Georgia arrives with $3 million in gold dust Washington Crossing the Delaware on view at Stuyvesant Institute, 659 Broadway Dec 8 Panama RR opens Murder up from 0 in 1850 to 8 in 1851 Yacht American Dickens Christmas Carol

Courrier des Etats Unis (New York), page 2.5 29 December: LM's debut is tonight.....Nous devions rendre a l'artiste cette justice qu'ele n'a use que tres moderement des moyens mis ordinairement en jeu par les charlatanisme; et si quelque speculation s'est fait a son sujet, elle ne parait pas y avoir trempe d'une maniere directe. C'est une reserve dont nous lui tenons compre tres volontiers.

Harvard Theatre Collection, playbills First appearance of LM in America/ Sig. Neri as Daniel, a rich peasant, GWSmith as Max Starner, LM as Betley/ Grand dance = corps de ballet, La Tyrolienne = LM, Grand pas de deux = LM + Neri, Mountaineer dance = corps de ballet, Hungarian Dance = LM, Grand gallop = whole company (A.W.Fenno appearing in other plays at the Broadway during this period)

NY Post, Page 2.4 30 December: Debut of Lola Montes -- An audience, principally composed of the male sex, and filling the Broadway theatre to its utmost capacity in all parts of the house from parquette to upper gallery welcomed the first appearance of Lola Montez last evening, and greeted her with immense enthusiasm. She is a very graceful, modest danseuse, and of very beautiful personal appearance. She was called before the curtain at the conclusion of the ballet, and completely smothered with flowers.

Courrier des Etats Unis, page 3.1 30 December: short notice: Disons seulement que le public a ete tres courtois, que les amateurs de la danse de fantasie ont pris grand plaisir aux exhibitions fort amusantes dont on les a gratifiees, et que les connaisseurs de leur cote, ont ri de bon coeur. Du rest, beaucoup d'applaudissements, beaucoup de fleurs, et pardessus le marche beaucoup de gaite.

Load more

  21

Copy Link