AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY IRISH COMPOSER THOMAS COOKE.

- 18 words penned in black ink on a fragment of a sheet of paper mounted on a piece of slightly heavier paper 4-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Signed "T Cooke". There are tiny scraps of gray paper on the verso of the mount where it has been removed from an album. Good. Cooke informs his correspondent that he is away and will be unable to meet with him until later in the week. Though only a fragment of the note paper is present, the note itself is complete.Musician Thomas Cooke [1782-1848] was born in Dublin. He was appointed musical director of a Dublin theatre at a young age. At the termination of that engagement he sang in English operas and later, after retiring from the stage, he acted as director and composer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He was noted for his facility both in composition and singing. At an 1820 benefit, besides singing, he performed solos on nine different instruments. He was also successful as a teacher.