Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CARUSO, ENRICO. Group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed, "Henry il Brutto" or in full, to various recipients, in Italian or French, announcing a tour in Germany, thanking for condolences [for death of his father?], discussing a letter from soprano Marcella Sembrich's husband, and arranging a meeting. Together 11 pages, 8vo or 12mo, most on folded sheet with terminal page written vertically across internal pages; condition generally good. Vp, 1907-15

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Nd, to "My dearest friend," in French: ". . . I hope to sing well this evening. Have you got the tickets? I hope so. Tomorrow at 2:30 I will come to pick you up . . . . I put the scarf close to my nose and I am already much better. . . ."
10 March 1915, to "Sir," in French: ". . . I have sent you . . . the letter that Mr. Wilhelm Stengel Sembrich had given me in New York at the last moment of my departure. I hope that the letter arrived . . . ."