He wrote: "Never did mortal woman sing as she sang that simple song that begins: 'Angels, Angels, bright and fair, Take, O take me to thy care!'" I saw Nilsson and Parepa introduced there, who were to sail on the same steamer in a few days.

Nilsson made the banjo fashionable in New York society, accompanying herself charmingly.

All the famous opera singers regarded the house of Dr.Doremus a place where they were thoroughly at home, and always welcome.

Ole Bull was for many years his most devoted friend.

Dr.Doremus writes: I recall that once when I was dining with Ole Bull, at the house of a friend, our host said: 'Doctor, I don't think much of Ole Bull's fiddling; you know what I mean--I don't think much of his fiddling as compared with his great heart.' Mr.Edwin Booth, once walking with me, dropped my arm and exclaimed with a dramatic gesture: "Ole Bull wasn't a man--he was a god!" The last time I had the privilege of listening to Ole Bull's witchery with his violin, he gave an hour to Norwegian folk-songs, his wife at the piano.