[Wagner, Richard]

comprising: a photographic portrait of Wagner with his son Siegfried and, added in collage, Siegfried's daughter Friedelind, inscribed to Toscanini and signed below the image by Siegfried Wagner ("Siegfried") and Friedelind Wagner ("Mausi"), with a clipped facsimile of Wagner's partial signature laid down to the left of Siegfried's signature, dated 25 March 1944, lower outer corner of mount torn away and detached; an autograph letter by Cosima Wagner to her daughter Daniela von Bülow, discussing Wagner ("...Papa war gestern recht leidend..."), Mozart's Figaro and the visit to Dresden ("...überall Juden!..."), 4 pages, 8vo, with an autograph envelope by Cosima Wagner, postmarked Dresden, 13 Septenber 1881; an autograph letter by Daniela von Bülow to Toscanini, signed by Daniela von Bülow and by Eva Wagner ("Daniela"; "Eva"), waiting for him with affectionate impatience, 1 page, 8vo, on a postcard depicting Wagner, Lucerne, 27 June 1938; together with a note in an unidentified hand concerning the final date of the original score of Wagner's Parsifal, 2 pages, no date, and one other printed item (5)

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