Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 25 May 1864, to M. [Heinrich?] Dorn, 1864 May 25.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 25 May 1864, to M. [Heinrich?] Dorn, 1864 May 25.

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Saying he has received the score of Dorn's charming operetta, that they will perform it the coming winter, complaining of gout, mentioning the deaths of Meyerbeer and the Marechal de Malakoff, the failure of Berlioz's Troyens and Gounod's Mireille, the success of his own Géorgiennes, etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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