The Boston Traveller, April, 1874, said:
Miss Nellie E. Brown has for some mouths been the leadiug soprano at Grace Church, Haverhill, Mass., which position she has filled with eminent acceptance, and with marked exhibition of artistic powers.
The Gazette, of New York City, said, November 4, 1874:
Miss Nellie Brown, born and bred from the hills of New Hampshire, possesses a voice of rare power and beauty, which she has dilligently labored to cultivate and improve by close and unremitting study. She has also a rare charm of manner, which, united with her exquisite singing, won for her an enthusiastic reception.
The great popularity of this very excellent lady is not by any means due alone to musical ability. It is quite possible for one to have all the abilities of this woman, and yet some one else with much less ability could be more popular. Miss Brown possessed politeness, kindness and expression. She was sociable, not arrogant, but positive, and yet carried a Winning sweetness of temper and disposition.
No, ability alone does not always bring success or popularity, but it is one of the essential elements to success, and is, possibly, regarded by some as being of more importance than any other one element; yet, since it costs no more to possess all the necessary qualities than it does to possess a part, and since it pays far better to have them all, why not imitate Miss Brown and succeed as she has?
There is much more which might, with profit, be said of her more recent days and achievements, and certainly many more testimonials of later date, but want of space forbids at this late day, having failed until very recently to get such facts as we desired.
