May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
THE PRIMA DONNA'S REQUIREMENTS LIND, JENNY. Autograph Letter Signed, "Jenny Goldschmidt," to "My Dear Mr. Halle," asking him to help her get accommodations in Manchester, and specifying her requirements. 8 pages, 8vo, on two folded sheets, "Windsor Hotel" stationery. Edinburgh, 22 November 1861
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"I am exceedingly sorry to be obliged . . . to ask a great and a troublesome favor of you!--we are in the pleasant situation of having no lodgings at Manchester . . . .
". . . [N]ot too far from the concert hall . . . . We want . . . a bedroom for my maid and a bedroom for a man servant . . . [N]o smoke in the rooms if possible . . . . We . . . wish to find all the rooms nicely warm without being overheated. . . ."