Autograph note signed and dated February 16, 1915, together with a bust-length Mishkin photograph of the American soprano

by Mabel Garrison

$40 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

On an album leaf 5.5 x 8 140 x 204 mm. : I am very happy to add mine to your collection of autographs. Autograph laid down to mounting sheet at corners of verso; photograph slightly worn, with remnants of adhesive to verso. Garrison joined the Metropolitan Opera... making her official début as Frasquita in Carmen in November 1914. She only attracted real attention, however, when she substituted at short notice for Raymonde

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