SACHER-MASOCH Leopold von - ALS 1887 asking for tickets to a play Category_Theatre

SACHER-MASOCH Leopold von - ALS 1887 asking for tickets to a play Category_TheatreLeopold von SACHER MASOCH (1836 1895) Autograph Letter Signed (Sacher Masoch) to an unnamed correspondent, addressed as Mon cher maitre, requesting a box for the premiere of his correspondents play. 2 pages 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, Paris, 5 January 1887. Trans: . . . I read that your new play will soon be performed. Could you let me have a box for the first night. I absolutely wish to attend this event, which the literary world awaits

Viscount Knutsford was a criminal lawyer

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As we were mounted and there were many of us including the escort

The English edition did not include corrections from the proofs – the agent lost the only typescript en route for U

who appears to have been rather dilatory in regard to his duties

I roared with laughter

Could you let me have a box for the first night

Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894)

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too often they will search their memories for phrases which might apply to it

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