BIB_ID
436566
Accession number
MA 3315.53
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1840 July 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 23.1 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Illustrated on page 1 with an image of the prodigy playing the piano with several people looking on; illustrated on page 2 with a man in spectacles playing the violin while another plays the piano and Henry watches from a chair to the side.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Writing that he and Adelaide went to a concert on Wednesday given by a new piano prodigy, identified later in the letter as "Demoiselle Boher" (possibly Sophie Bohrer); describing her interactions there with Rubinstein (probably Anton Rubinstein); commenting on vocal performances by [Joseph] Staudigl, Mademoiselle Lang, and Herr Brant, with a focus on Staudigl; ruminating on the idea of a concert featuring only child-performers and listing possible participants.
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