Storace, Nancy, (the first Susanna in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro").

reporting the reception given to [Edmund] Kean, stating that she was at the theatre this evening for two minutes just to witness it, adding that no one saw her, and urging him to visit her the following day at one o'clock and to suggest another time should this be inconvenient, 2 pages, 12mo (10.6 x 8.8cm), autograph address panel, St. James's Street, Tuesday evening, no year [possibly c.1816-1817], seal tear; together with: three small engraved portraits of the singer and one of her friend the tenor Michael Kelly; and 11 other autograph letters and documents, including by Humperdinck, Karl Klindworth, Ernst von Wolzogen, Sigrid Arnoldson etc. (16 items in all)

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Autograph material by Nancy Storace is of the greatest rarity. The recipient of this letter was the actor and singer John Pritt Harley (1786-1858), who often performed at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. In 1816 he played opposite Edmund Kean. To judge from the insistent tone of the letter, Nancy Storace was clearly in some emotional turmoil at the time, a reflection, no doubt of her complicated private life.