Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
GOUNOD, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, "Ch. Gounod," to an unnamed recipient ("Dear Sir"), in French, declining to participate, explaining that he is already involved in a charity effort to benefit the same victims, and sending a program for the benefit concert [not present]. 2 1/4 pages, small 8vo, written on a folded sheet; remnants of prior mounting along vertical fold on terminal page, horizontal folds, pencil sketch of woman in unknown hand on terminal page. [London], 23 July 1870
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". . . The only persons I see are French families brought here, as you are, as I and mine are, by the difficulties of the situation. I . . . contribute to charity . . . tomorrow evening by associating myself with the organizers of a public concert . . . which I accepted only to be able to contribute to the second of the unfortunate victims that you spoke of, and who are the special aim of the concert . . . . "
In 1870, to escape the Franco-Prussian War, Gounod moved with his family to London, where they lived for five years before returning to their home in Saint-Cloud.