The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 28, July 13, 2003, Article 14

MICKLEY PUBLICATION: WILLIAM USSELINX

  I recently picked up an item I had been looking for
  for a number of years. It's a non-numismatic publication
  by Philadelphia collector Joseph J. Mickley.  A printing
  from the papers of the Historical Society of Delaware,
  it is titled "Some Account of William Usselinx and Peter
  Minuit: Two Individuals Who Were Instrumental in
  Establishing the First Permanent Colony in Delaware."
  The paper was originally read before the society at its
  annual meeting December 10, 1874, four years before
  Mickley's death.  The paper was published in 1881.
  The pamphlet includes a two-page obituary notice for
  Mickley which was extracted from a Philadelphia
  newspaper, and contains much fodder for the dustbin.
  The obituary notes:

  "Ole Bull was his intimate friend, and his house was
  for may year the resort of antiquarians, musicians, and
  historians from all parts of the world. It was he who
  discovered that the violin which Ole Bull bought for a
  Gaspar Desala was a counterfeit."

  So who was Ole Bull?  A web search found some
  information.  Ole Bull (1810-1880) of Norway was
  one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his time.
  http://home.online.no/~aarvoll/ole_bull.htm

http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/SOS/4KIDS/4kids2000/MNOleBull.htm

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/0294.htm

 The last link is to a book on Bull's life.  Perhaps it
  contains some references to his friend Mickley.
  "Bull counted among his friends the great names of his era:
  Schumann and Lizst, Emerson and Wagner. Longfellow
  and Hans Christian Andersen modeled characters on him,
  and he was in part the inspiration for Ibsen's Peer Gynt."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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