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herself with her friend on behalf of the unfortunate
Swedes, and that in time a complete change was wrought
in their circumstances. They removed from that
solitary farm in the forest to Chicago. Schneidau
obtained adequate surgical aid; recovered, and is
at this moment the most skillful daguerreotypist,
probably, in the whole state, and, as such, has made
considerable gains. He is just now returned from
New York, where he has taken a large and excellent
daguerreotype of Jenny Lind. He is universally liked
here. His lively, pretty wife now relates, laughing
and crying at the same time, the occurrences of their
life in the wilderness in a kind of medley of Swedish
and English, which is charming. Unonius and his wife
removed hither also, but in better circumstances than
the former.
Unonius is just now at New York; he is gone to see
Mademoiselle Lind and obtain from her money for the
completion of the Lutheran church at Chicago. I spent
an evening with his wife. That gay, high-spirited
girl, of whom I heard when she was married at
Uppsala to accompany her husband to the New World,
had gone through severe trials of sickness, want, and
sorrow. She had laid four children to rest in foreign
soil. She had one boy remaining. She was still pretty,
still young, but her cheerfulness was gone; and her
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