[Theatre and Opera] General Tom Thumb [Stratton, Charles Sherwood.] (1838–1883) & Langtry, Lillie. (1853–1929) & Salvini, Tommaso. (1829–1915) & Ristori, Adelaide. (1822–1906) & Irving, Henry. (1838–1905) & Terry, Ellen. (1847–1928) & Patti, Carlotta. (1840–1889) & Wilhelmj, August. (1845–1908)
Incredible Autograph Album, including Tom Thumb, Langtry, Salvini, Ristori, Irving, Terry, Patti, Wilhelmj etc.
A very interesting autograph album containing original photographs, signatures and signed autograph quotations from actors, opera singers, musicians and other personalities of the late nineteenth century. Signatures include: dwarf performers Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stratton (General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren); opera singers Carlotta Patti (with obituary news clipping), Anna de Belocca ("Chi ca piano, ca sano e chi va sano, va lontano"), Emma Abbott ("Be thou faithful unto death"), Marie Roze, Annie Louise Cary, and Marie Spettini; actresses Lillie Langtry ("Au revoir"), Ellen Terry, Mary Anderson, Kate Claxton, Lilian Adelaide Neilson, Adelaide Ristori ("Art is the mirror and the emanation of life"), Mary F. Scott-Siddons, Minnie Palmer, and Ada Cavendish; actors Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini ("Euterpe onora il Canto! Tersicore...Carole! Ed io qual merto vanto? Parole! poi...parole!"), John T. Raymond, William Florence, Thomas Whiffen "(If you please"), Joseph Wheelock Sr., Samuel W. Piercy, Henry Dixie ("I never was born I was quarried"), and Wilson Barrett ("The rest is silence - Hamlet"); violinists August Wilhelmj and Eduard Remenyi; and abolitionist and women's rights activist Anna Dickinson. The album contains 20 pp. of autographs and 17 blank pages. Red leather boards with gold embossed lettering, gold-edged pages; heavy wear to binding with spine detached. 6 x 8 inches. (15699)Archive Signed Document/Item Signature Classical Music Opera Theater