8vo. Together 7� pp. on 6 single sheets. Amicable letters to colleagues and friends in support of their artistic careers. - To the composer L�o Delibes (1836-91) about Auguste Vaucorbeil (1821-84) wishing to obtain the music to their 1870 ballet "Copp�lia", emphasizing Vacourbeil's influence on opera productions: "Vaucorbeil m'a exprim� hier le plaisir qu'il aurait � tenir de vous une partition de Coppelia. Vous savez que Vaucorbeil, commissaire du Gouvernement pr�s les Th��tres subventionn�s, n'est pas sans influence sur la choix des compositeurs jou�s � l'op�ra [.]" (no place, "Saturday"). - To the composer Louis-Etienne-Ernest Reyer (1823-1909), who had set the sonnet "Le Fleuve d'oubli" by the theatre manager and librettist Camille du Locle (1832-1903) to music in 1899, announcing several copies to be sent to du Locle, promising to inform the same of Reyer's high regard for his latest work and his looking forward to again setting to music an equally poetic sonnet: "Vous devez avoir re�u des exemplaires du Fleuve d'oubli, choisis dans des tonalit�s diff�rentes. Camille aussi va en recevoir. Je ne manquerai pas de lui dire, dans ma prochaine lettre, combien le dernier sonnet vous a paru r�ussi et le desir que vous avez d'�crire le plus t�t possible la musique d'un nouveau sonnet aussi po�tique [.]" (15 Feb. [1899]). On headed stationery of the "Minist�re de l'Instruction publique". - To a friend about his vain efforts to discover any information on the composer Johann Beer (1655-1700), mentioning that the title of one of his works might aid further research, letting him know that the birth certificate of the singer Eug�ne Caron (1834-1903) is not preserved in the opera archives, and giving a short description of Caron's life: "J'ai tard� � vous �crire, parce que j'aurais voulu r�pondre � vos deux questions, et, jusqu'� pr�sent, je n'ai rien pu trouver de pr�cis sur le compositeur H. Beer, mort depuis longtemps, me dites vous. Si vous pouviez m'indiquer une de ses oeuvres, je ferais bien volontiers de nouvelles recherches. Je ne poss�de pas, dans nos archives, l'acte de naissance de Mr. Caron. Voici toutefois les renseignements qui m'ont �t� donn�s � l'op�ra: Caron, Eug�ne Charles, n� � Rouen [.]" (16 Nov. 1889). On headed stationery of the "Archives et Biblioth�que de l'Op�ra". - The remaining letters concern opera tickets and seats (on opera stationery) and encourage a colleague to prolong his stay in Nice (on archive stationery). - All with traces of former mounting on verso. Seller Inventory # 54264

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Title: 6 autograph letters signed.

Publisher: Paris and no place, 1869-1891 and undated.

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