INDY VINCENT DE Autograph Letter Signed to mezzo soprano Jea

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WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER THE PREMIERE OF HIS "FERVAAL" INDY, VINCENT DE. Autograph Letter Signed, to mezzo-soprano Jeanne Raunay ("Mrs. André Beaunier"), in French, praising her performance as Guilhen [a leading role in Fervaal], with a 10-line postscript, offering a Norman necklace from his mother's family as a gift. 3 1/4 pages, small 8vo, mourning stationery, written on a folded sheet; short closed separation at vertical fold, horizontal fold. Np, 13 March 1897

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". . . The truth is that--even at the rehearsals--I never had the complete impression of my Guilhen which you gave me last evening!
"I am very happy . . . to have had you to create that role--which you made into something very personal by your astonishing stage presence and your assimilation of the character without the usual theatrical preoccupations; and I am nicely pleased also that I provided an opportunity for you to have a real triumph . . . (that is the opinion of all our Parisians)--you had the largest share in the success. . . . I am delighted that you were so obviously successful both as Guilhen for me, and as a great artist for the public."