Puccini, Giacomo, and Ruggero Leoncavallo.

PUCCINI writes to Adolfo Re Riccardi, explaining that he is not leaving Paris that evening, and asking if he could help look after his wife Elvira, who feels better but still suffers from fever, and may require a doctor ("...Grazie caro Adolfo. Ti scriverò caso mai per il cavaliere.  Io non parto stasera.  Ti ringrazio molto a nome di Elvira che stamani è più riposata ma la febbre persiste. Ti telegraferò poi in caso per una visita di Murri..."),  1 page, 8vo, on a letter-card of the Hotel Westminster, Paris, autograph address panel, [probably c.1909-1913]; LEONCAVALLO writes about Chatterton, seeking to interest the French Pathé Recording Company in acquiring the rights to make a film of the opera ("...alla quale cederei musica e soggetto riducibile per cinematografo..."), explaining that he has bought back the rights to the opera from the French publisher and confessing that prospects for the opera in Italy have been limited by the retirement of Lucignani, the creator of the title role, 4 pages, 8vo, Viareggio, 9 May 1914

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