Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 173

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ON DEATH OF CARUSO: "THE WORLD HAS LOST ONE OF ITS GREAT MEN" SCOTTI, ANTONIO. Two items, each Signed, "AScotti": Photograph postcard * Autograph Letter. The photograph, additionally dated, bust portrait signed at lower right. Correspondence side blank. 12mo; remnants of hinging at left edge verso. The letter, to Selma Stieglitz Schubart, in English, expressing his sorrow upon the death of Enrico Caruso. 3 pages, small 8vo, "Vanderbilt Hotel" stationery, written on a folded sheet; horizontal fold. With the original envelope, with cancelled 2-cent postage stamp. London, 1906; New York, 9 August 1921
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". . . The world has lost one of its great men. But a man like Caruso does not die, his spirit will live on forever in your memory and mine as well as everyone in the world who love[d] and admired him."