Four items: one two-bar chorale AMQS by Sir Michael Costa with the lyrics, “Help me O Lord!,” signed below in black ink, “M. Costa, 59 Eccleston Square, London, April 1876”; one bold AMQS with four double bars, signed in black ink, “Hamish MacCunn”; one untranslated ALS, in French, signed “Victor Masse,” one page, 5.25 x 8, Theatre Imperial de L’Opera letterhead, April 25, 1864, offering his opinion on the opera; and one untranslated ALS, in French, signed “F. Paolo Tosti,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, June 11, no year, declining an invitation to play music as lessons are taking up all of his time. In overall fine condition, with various mild scattered toning and soiling, and intersecting folds to the Masse letter, two vertical fold passing through single letters of his signature. Accompanied by an unsigned real photo postcard of MacCunn and an unsigned magazine photo of Tosti. RR Auction COA.
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