FRENCH COMPOSERS: Victor Massé (1822-1884) A.L.S., Victor Massé, one page, 8vo, Paris, 2nd July 1864, on the Imperial Theatre of the Opera, to Mr. Thomas, in French. Massé asks his correspondent to accept an audition for Madame Cavailles, stating `..an interesting artist, member of the Opera choir, student at the Conservatory, who wishes a little audition, make me the pleasure of accepting…you know her, she is your protégée and for this reason she was accepted to the singing lessons..´. With blank integral leaf; Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) A.L.S., Nadia Boulanger, two pages, oblong 8vo, mourning paper, Paris, n.d., to Henri Béraud, in French. On the occasion of a honorific performance given for the disappeared, Boulanger states `I obviously only request from you that you explain that these works, so great and so scarcely performed, are this time performed to help to all these distressed people. No one intends to be mentioned..´. VG, 2

Henri Béraud (1885-1958) French Novelist & Journalist. Sentenced to death, later commuted, for collaboration with the Nazis during WWII.