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CATALOG NUMBER S 999
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December 20, 1825
AUTHOR George Lee Schuyler
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr. [Victor?] Bancel, Signor [Manuel] Garcia, [Maria Felicia] Malibran,
PLACES New York City,
Studying at??: L'école Economique (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011597?seq=5)
KEYWORDS education, final “exhibitions” (opera/theater: Mr Jourdain in “The
Bourgeois Gentilhomme” (Moliere); Talk Much in “The Reapers” (Frances Brooke); “Moolach in “Consultation of the Fallen Angels”; Loco s’era in “The Locos”; “Innocentiam ubique tutam esse (Innocence is Everywhere Safe)” by Horace, Amante Astuta The Cunning Lover, Manuel Garcia), Barber of Seville, French language, English language, Spanish language, Latin language,
NOTE Rosina, or The Reapers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosina_(opera)
Amane Astuta, “The Cunning Lover” - https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha011609971
Malibran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Malibran
Dear father,
I write you with the greatest / pleasure to inform you that I am very well & / I hope that you are the same. We are now preparing / for our exhibition, & are consequently very much / occupied in writing our exercises and studying our / pieces. I have very fine pieces this year; viz. In / French I am Mr Jourdain in the Bourgeois Gentilhom= / me; in English I have the same as last year / Talk Much in the Reapers, & have besides the character / of Moolach in a piece entitled the Consultation of / the Fallen Angels; in Spanish Loco s’era in the / piece entitled the Locos; & in Latin the Ode of / Horace entitled Innocentiam ubique tutam esse; which / is very handsome. I hope to see you there / both nights; & I expect to bring home a hand=
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=some collection of premiums. Mr. Bancel has / taken us to see the Opera of the Barber of Seville; / I was very much amused, and should like to go / and see the Amante Astuta; which I understand was / composed by Signor Garcia himself. I remain
Your obedient son
George L. Schuyler
[PENCIL NOTATIONS - later]
Father of the / great Malibran - / who performed in the / operas =
