The Author of *The Lady of the Camellias* Eugénie DOCHE....
The Author of *The Lady of the Camellias*
Eugénie DOCHE. 11 signed autograph letters, including 3 to Alexandre Dumas. Undated, 1872. 13 pp. in-8.
- “Alas! My dear friend, the management of the Vaudeville has passed into the hands of Mr. Carvalho; no new engagements are being made at the moment… I am a bit selfish and would very much like to see both of you stay in Brussels, for I will certainly be returning there next winter…” – “Tell me, my poor dear friend, your inexhaustible wellspring of kindness, charm, and generosity is having the time of its life trying to get your manuscript back; they’ve promised it to me by September 3, and they’ll return it to me along with the reading committee’s decision…”
– Undated: “Will you host me in your box? Has Alexandre completely forgotten me? - To a “dear director”: “What would you think of a collaboration with Fond-Dugué? We shouldn’t count on either [?] or Dennery…”
– To a “dear director”: she requests a “small box seat” for the evening performance. – A thought for an album?: “I grew old very early, so I have remained young for a very long time”
– To Blandin, a theater director, to whom she sets her conditions for performances in the provinces: a fixed fee of 200 francs plus a share of the proceeds, and she proposes: “La Princesse Georges, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Le Supplice d’une femme (the Lady [of the Camellias], which is always a surefire hit), Le Demi-Monde… I’ve never been to Reims, and I’d be happy to give a few performances there…”
– To Auber. She asks him for a box because she “very much wishes to hear my young protégée tomorrow.”
Enclosed:
- Photographic portrait. Disdéri photograph (unframed)
- 3 lithographed portraits from *La France théâtrale* and *Psyché*.
- Adèle DALLOZ (sister of Eugénie Doche). Letter to the English critic Johnson. She recommends to him a promising but somewhat shy young tenor, Mr. Montariot, who has just been hired at Covent Garden. “He will be very happy the day you devote a few lines to him in one of your columns in *Le Figaro*… My sister, Ms. Doche, asks me to send you her regards…”
The Author of *The Lady of the Camellias*
Eugénie DOCHE. 11 signed autograph letters, including 3 to Alexandre Dumas. Undated, 1872. 13 pp. in-8.
- “Alas! My dear friend, the management of the Vaudeville has passed into the hands of Mr. Carvalho; no new engagements are being made at the moment… I am a bit selfish and would very much like to see both of you stay in Brussels, for I will certainly be returning there next winter…” – “Tell me, my poor dear friend, your inexhaustible wellspring of kindness, charm, and generosity is having the time of its life trying to get your manuscript back; they’ve promised it to me by September 3, and they’ll return it to me along with the reading committee’s decision…”
– Undated: “Will you host me in your box? Has Alexandre completely forgotten me? - To a “dear director”: “What would you think of a collaboration with Fond-Dugué? We shouldn’t count on either [?] or Dennery…”
– To a “dear director”: she requests a “small box seat” for the evening performance. – A thought for an album?: “I grew old very early, so I have remained young for a very long time”
– To Blandin, a theater director, to whom she sets her conditions for performances in the provinces: a fixed fee of 200 francs plus a share of the proceeds, and she proposes: “La Princesse Georges, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Le Supplice d’une femme (the Lady [of the Camellias], which is always a surefire hit), Le Demi-Monde… I’ve never been to Reims, and I’d be happy to give a few performances there…”
– To Auber. She asks him for a box because she “very much wishes to hear my young protégée tomorrow.”
Enclosed:
- Photographic portrait. Disdéri photograph (unframed)
- 3 lithographed portraits from *La France théâtrale* and *Psyché*.
- Adèle DALLOZ (sister of Eugénie Doche). Letter to the English critic Johnson. She recommends to him a promising but somewhat shy young tenor, Mr. Montariot, who has just been hired at Covent Garden. “He will be very happy the day you devote a few lines to him in one of your columns in *Le Figaro*… My sister, Ms. Doche, asks me to send you her regards…”
