Autograph letter signed : London, to "My dear Collaborateur" [Robert du Pontavice de Heussey], 1883 May 24.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to "My dear Collaborateur" [Robert du Pontavice de Heussey], 1883 May 24.

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Apologizing for his delay in writing, and explaining that his failure to keep up their correspondence is due to his full schedule, noting that rehearsals for his new play [Rank and Riches] occupy his mornings and afternoons and that his evenings "are passed prostrate in an armchair with a cigar and a volume of Scribe's plays (what a master of his art!)" Wishing de Heussey success in Paris, regretting that Collins is "tied to London, unable to help [him]." Commenting on the "Great Sarah" [Bernhardt], wondering whether there is any "chance of feeling in that illustrious woman which may tell her that she has died in the agonies of poison often enough? And that a complete change in her 'répertoire' might help her with the public?" Sending kind remembrances to de Heussey's brother, offering him letters of introduction.

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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