# - Opera Singers.

Giuditta Pasta (letter signed to Ronconi), Lablache (2, about Don Giovanni)  Rubini (2, about other singers), Tamburini (receipt mentioning Tadolini and Ivanoff), Marietta Alboni (about Maria Padilla and Il furioso at Paris), Karoline Ungher, Henriette Sontag, Crivelli, Curioni, Luigi Ronzi (to Benelli about Ronzi de Begnis), Bonoldi (to Ronconi about Anna Bolena), Mario, Frezzolini, Lind (one autograph letter signed and one autograph musical quotation signed), Zenatello, Thomas Cooke (2), Sims Reeves (3), Clara Novello, Albani, Mary Garden (2), Garat, Galli-Marie, Gardoni, Jeritza (signed photograph), Heilbronn, Patti, E. Lloyd, Incledon, Sabilla Novello; together with c.28 autograph letters signed and clipped signatures from the Northcott collection, including part of an autograph letter by Hummel



over 50 items, nineteenth century to early twentieth century, a few items laid down

From the William Reeves collection

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A fine collection of letters by the most famous singers of the great age of Italian opera, many addressed to Felice Ronconi.