The Black Swan at Home and Abroad: or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American VocalistAnonymous
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The Black Swan at Home and Abroad: or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist
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Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor, approximately 1819-1876
Sir:--The salary of five pounds per week, payable by you to me
under our agreement, bearing date the twenty-first day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, being in arrears and
unpaid for more than five weeks last past, (though repeated
applications have been made to you for payment thereof) and the
amount now owing to me by you having been demanded, and default
being made in payment of the same, and there being other breaches
on your part, of the agreement made between us, I do hereby, in
pursuance of the power or authority given to me by the said
agreement, bearing date the twenty-first day of October, eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, and of all other powers and authorities
enabling me thereto, give you notice that I do hereby cancel the
said agreement, bearing date as aforesaid, and also the agreement
dated the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three, respectively made between you of the one part and
myself of the other part, and do hereby declare that the said
agreements, respectively, shall be, and become absolutely void on
the giving of this notice to you; but without prejudice to my
rights and remedies for the recovery of any money that may now be
due to me, under or by virtue of the said agreement, or either of
them.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
ELIZABETH T. GREENFIELD.
The piano forte which previously had been furnished Miss G., to practise
upon, was taken from her. The Duchess of Sutherland, upon learning the
fact, immediately directed her to select one from Broadwood's. Her
grace, from whom good acts seem constantly to emanate, permitted her to
choose one valued at sixty guineas.
Arrangements being completed for a Concert at the Stafford House, the
following announcement at the same time was made to the British
public:--
27 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.
The Black Swan, in appealing to the generosity of the British
public, assures them that the primary object of her visit to Europe
is, to accomplish herself in the science of music, which
professional friends earnestly counsel her to pursue, and which she
embraces _con amore_, with the confident hope that, by the exercise
of her vocal faculties in a more cultured form, she may be able to
achieve the great object of her life. She is sensible of the
philanthropic spirit of the people of Great Britain, and feels
confident that they will receive her appeal with that kindness and
forbearance that ever characterizes them in the cause of true
humanity.
The Black Swan, therefore, has the honour of informing the
nobility, gentry, and public, that she will shortly appear at a
grand concert (the particulars of which will be announced) under
distinguished patronage.
ELIZABETH T. GREENFIELD.
London, May, 1853.
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