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Composers and Musicians COLLECTION OF 107 CARTES DE VISITE OF NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS, MANY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED 1) COMPOSERS, including VERDI (inscribed "mille e mille ringrazi"), PUCCINI (inscribed "...Saluti cordiali"), STRAVINSKY (inscribed "vous remercie de tout coeur"), FAURÉ (2, inscribed ), Saint-Saëns (2, inscribed "il faut que je sois en bon état demain! je n'ai plus 20 ans..."), Gounod, Lalo, Lehar, Goldmark, Umberto Giordano, Delibes (4), Charpentier (2, inscribed and signed), d'Indy (2, one inscribed and signed, "Merci, mon cher Danbé, de votre si musical petit mot...V. d'Indy"; the other inscribed only), Ysaye, Gabriel Pierné, Vieuxtemps, Ambroise Thomas and Liszt 2) SINGERS AND MUSICIANS, including Victor Maurel, Mattia Battistini, William Cummings, Planté (2), Adolphe Sax Félia Litvinne (2), Gabrielle Krauss (2), Rosine Laborde, Jean-Baptiste Faure, Jean de Reszke, Édouard de Reszke, Albani Gye (2), Lauri-Volpi, Marguerite Ugalde, Jenny Lind, Mary Garden, Rose Caron, Marguerite Carré, Lucienne Bréval, Louis Diémer, Nellie Melba, Alfred Bruneau, André Messager (2), Pauline Viardot, Trebelli, Yvonne Gall, Emma Calvé, John McCormack, Adelina Patti (3, one inscribed and signed, one inscribed only), Caruso, Jean Périer, Francesco Tamagno, Leschetizky, Charles Lecocq Giovanni Martinelli Melchissédec, Jean-Alexandre Talazac, Lucien Fugère, Sims Reeves, Benjamin Godard, Pol Plançon and Edmond Audran various sizes, a few black-edged, one of Mathilde Marchesi with an envelope, [Paris, London, and elsewhere,] mostly second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth