Italian opera singer (b. 1822). Autograph letter signed. No place. 8vo. 1 page on bifolium. With autograph address verso.
$ 375 / 350 €
(85904/BN56594)
To Mademoiselle de Kontski in Paris, probably Eugenia de Kontski (born 1816), the sister of the violinist Antoine de Kontski, regretting that she cannot provide her with concert tickets, as the pianist and composer Sigismund Thalberg (1812-71) has to pay his artists and does not hand out tickets; about sorting the tickets she has right now, and mentioning a letter of thanks to Kontski's brother: "Je doute ma bonne Demoiselle que Mr. Thalberg me donne des Billets, car il paye Ses Artistes, et a ce titre je n'oserai en reclamer, autrement vous pensez bien que je me ferais un plaisir de vous les offrir.
Je débrouille dans ce moment mes Billets et ne manque pas de besogne, autrement. J'aurai été remercié Monsieur Votre frère [...] mais je lui ait écrit encore hier à ce fois [...]“. - With the former collector's number "26" in pencil. Traces of former mounting on verso; traces of old folds; slightly foxed..