Eugénie GARCIA (1815-1880). L.A.S., Macerata August 17, to M - Lot 75

Eugénie GARCIA (1815-1880). L.A.S., Macerata August 17, to Marie ESCUDIER at the journal La France musicale; 3 pages and a quarter in-4, addressed with broken red wax seal (last leaf split and repaired with gummed paper). The singer asks to announce her debut in Macerata "and to tell you a little about the enthusiasm produced by the music and the singers! We have never seen such extraordinary success here. I'm never called back less than 15 times, and yesterday I was called back thirty!..." She goes on to play Otello and recounts the festivities given in honor of the pope, the horse race, the songs, the illuminations, the fireworks, the crowd of 20,000 people, which ended at the theater, where they sang the finale of Ernani, "armed (us too) with yellow and white flags and papal cockades [...] I thought the hall was going to collapse and I confess to you, I was afraid"...