PUCCINI GIACOMO Autograph Note Signed Giacomo to Sybil Selig

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CARUSO'S LOVER HAS LEFT HIM: "HAD A LETTER FROM CARUSO . . . ADA HAS GONE" PUCCINI, GIACOMO. Autograph Note Signed, "Giacomo," to Sybil Seligman ("Dear Sybil"), in Italian, reporting that [Guelfo?] Civinini has departed and that Enrico Caruso's lover Ada Giachetti has left Caruso, and thanking her for a recent visit. 1 page, 8vo, personal lettercard stationery; hole at upper left with loss to much of first few lines of text, horizontal folds, address panel on verso in another hand. Torre del Lago, [17 September 1908: from postmark]

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". . . Here life is much the same--Civinini has left, and now I am seriously getting to work. I had a letter from Caruso telling me . . . that Ada has gone off with only one dress (unlucky woman, you will say) and without a penny. He's free now and glad to be able to devote himself to his boys, to whom he hopes soon to give a good mother . . . ."
Published in Vincent Seligman's Puccini Among Friends. (New York: Macmillan, 1938), 158.