[Erminia Rudersforff, Anglo-German soprano vocalist] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr. Maitland'.

Anglo-German soprano vocalist, mother of Richard Mansfield. 2 pages, 16mo. Grubby and creased, but in good condition overall. Written in purple ink in a small tight hand. She wonders whether the Maitlands have 'set me down by this time as the most illmannered and ungratefull of all beings', or if they know what she has been doing since they sent her 'the information about Liverpool'. After the evening they spent together she 'had the children home, your kind information came and I discussed the matter with Harry'. She then had to leave for Germany 'where I had indeed a delightful Time!' She will recount how the Queen and King of Prussia and the Crown princess received her in private audiences when they meet again. 'Then I returned home only to start again for Nottingham and then I wound up by behaving like an idiot; catching cold and havingg such an attack of Influenza, as I do not recollect to have had in this state of my existence, certainly'. She has only just emerged from the 'strictest privacy of my bedchamber'.…