SAINT-SAENS Camille - ALS 1891 listing the scandalous heroines of his operas Autograph Type_Photographs

SAINT-SAENS Camille - ALS 1891 listing the scandalous heroines of his operas Autograph Type_PhotographsCamille SAINT SANS (1835 1921) Autograph Letter Signed (C. Saint Sans) to an unidentified friend and librettist, declining his libretto while expressing admiration of it. 2 pages 8vo in French on mourning paper, n. p., 18 February 1891. Trans: This scenario on Marcellus is absolutely ravishing, but honestly, when I am preparing to revive Proserpine, when I consider Phryn, can I take on yet another amorous courtesan? It is frightening how many whores I

but it was his conduct at the battle of Aspern-Essling in May which earned him the title of Prince d’Essling

and to build a form of Panetheon to the nations’s great men

and will let you know when he will be at Lismore

he only acquires his equipment after he has joined

The letter is rather dusty

which should

- that being another word for rotten

Marshal Count Serurier

Would you let me know what the cost of despatch will be

you could discuss the matter between yourselves

whose maiden name was Power] are of this opinion – I hope that you will let me have a few copies of it

he composed an opera based on Thomas Hardy’s The Queen of Cornwall