Patti, Adelina:

$250 · Offered by William Reese Company

[Autograph Quotation, Signed]. The Spanish born American soprano (1843-1919) writes, in part: "Melody is, and ever will be, the very flower of music... It is the gift of heaven which the savage, the mountain shepherd, the rustic piper alike find spontaneously...." Signed "Adelina Patti." Three lines of an unrelated inscription and signature conclude the page, and a simple inscription and signature of another party appear on the verso.

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