Theater playbill advertisement for Miss E.L. Williams the Welsh Nightingale at Philharmonic Hall, Washington, D.C. April 7, 1858

Philharmonic Hall. Miss E.L. Williams the Welsh nightingale respectfully announces that she will give a series of her highly amusing musical entertainments in this city, commencing on Wednesday ev'g, April 7, '58. The entertainments were expressly written for Miss W. by Sam'l Lover, Esq. entitled "Love's Dream" in which she will impersonate 12 different characters and sing eighteen new Welsh, Irish, Scotch and English Ballads, the same as sung by here in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore to crowded houses comprising the beauty & fashion of those cities, who nightly testifed their appreciation of those fine old English ballads by unequivocal testimonials of pleasure. For full particulars, see programmes.