GROTE (Harriet, née Lewin, 1792-1878, Writer)

Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sir' (Sir August Manns, 1825-1907, Musical Director at the Crystal Palace 1855-1901), introducing "Signor Cimino, a Neapolitan gentleman ... a refugee from the ... govt. of that oppressed nation", he has a talent for music, though not a professional, and "wishes to be employed as a singer, teacher, or conductor of private concerts" to support his family, "I have heard him sing & ... shall feel it an obligation conferred on myself" if Manns can employ him, "from ... the recommendation wh. he brot. me from Paris I shd think him a deserving and respectable candidate", with a P.S. "I have suggested to M. Cimino to call upon you next Monday", 3 sides 8vo, 12 Saville Row, 25th May

Mrs Grote wrote a 'Memoir of Ary Scheffer', 1860, 'Collected Papers in Prose and Verse', 1862, and 'The Personal Life of George Grote', 1873, her husband, the historian and President of UCL.

Item Date:  1860

Stock No:  17292      £30

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