BIB_ID
195093
Accession number
MA 22996
Creator
Lafosse, Augustus Frederick Alfred, circa 1840-1911.
Display Date
Manchester, England, undated.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1962.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written in the third person. Lafosse identifies himself as "The Chevalier Lafosse," a title he employed.
On stationery with an embossed blue lion holding up a flower. Lafosse gives the place of writing as "32 Victoria St / Manchester."
The letter is addressed to "C. Calvert Esq / Princes Theatre." Based on its provenance, it is most likely that this refers to Charles Calvert, English actor and manager of the Theatre Royal and the Prince's Theatre in Manchester.
Acquired with MA 2243, a collection containing 128 letters addressed to William Alfred Turner, a businessman and promoter of the arts in Manchester. The album was broken up in 1982. Items in that collection are now individually accessioned and cataloged.
On stationery with an embossed blue lion holding up a flower. Lafosse gives the place of writing as "32 Victoria St / Manchester."
The letter is addressed to "C. Calvert Esq / Princes Theatre." Based on its provenance, it is most likely that this refers to Charles Calvert, English actor and manager of the Theatre Royal and the Prince's Theatre in Manchester.
Acquired with MA 2243, a collection containing 128 letters addressed to William Alfred Turner, a businessman and promoter of the arts in Manchester. The album was broken up in 1982. Items in that collection are now individually accessioned and cataloged.
Provenance
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1962.
Summary
Referring to a portrait of Calvert that Lafosse had commissioned from the painter "Mr A Scott, R. H. A.;" objecting to Calvert's "ungentlemanly conduct" the previous evening at the theater; attributing it either to "a premeditated wish to insult or the derniere resort of Triumphant Snobbism;" adding that the backgrounds have been returned, "and The Chevalier Lafosee declines to take any more Photographs."
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