BIB_ID
437115
Accession number
MA 14300.374
Creator
Smythe, Emily, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1856 July 16
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.5 x 13.1 cm
Notes
Written on black edged mourning stationery.
Written from: "Grosvenor Hotel / Park St. / London."
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence: Charles Hamilton Aide published "Eleonore" in London in 1856, and Verdi's La traviata premiered in London that same year.
Written from: "Grosvenor Hotel / Park St. / London."
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence: Charles Hamilton Aide published "Eleonore" in London in 1856, and Verdi's La traviata premiered in London that same year.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing her that she successfully handed off her parcel to the Admiralty and it should now be in the possession of Lord Elgin; mentioning mutual acquaintances who have left or remained in London, and reporting that the "Beau Capitaine" (evidently a reference to the writer Charles Hamilton Aide) has just published a volume of poetry entitled "Eleonore"; commenting on the London theater, mentioning (Johanna) Wagner, and noting that (Marietta) Piccolomini remains as popular as ever in La Traviata, and that the opera "does not seem to shock the English public at all", although the original "La Dame aux camélias" was "most indignantly anathematized", and adding that people seem to perceive a difference between "singing & talking oneself into a Consumption"; writing that she saw Miss Caldwell ("she talked much of you"), and that "I am released from the necessity of lying down."
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