Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 6 March [n.y.], to Sir Julius Benedict, [n.y.] Mar. 6.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 6 March [n.y.], to Sir Julius Benedict, [n.y.] Mar. 6.

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Returning "Musopolis," which he found extremely interesting, but saying that "Americans can both sing & act admirably but the creation of musical subjects (of any individuality) has not yet come to them," mentioning Theodore Thomas, [Leopold] Damrosch "and the rest of them. Entre nous they are quite a second-rate lot," etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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