Author:
Genevieve Ward [Dame Lucy Genevi?ve Teresa Ward; Countess de Guerbel] (1837-1922), Anglo-American soprano singer and actress [A. M. Broadley [Alexander Meyrick Broadley] (1847-1916)]
Publication details:
?May 8th [1889]?. On her letterhead (with facsimile initials), 10 Cavendish Road, Regent?s Park, N. W. [London]?.
See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient (?Broadley Pasha?) was a renowned autograph collector and shady social figure, as well as the de facto editor of Edmund Yates?s ?World?. 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight sunning to first page, and traces of mount on blank final page. Folded once. Signed ?Genevi?ve Ward? (note the accent). The letter relates to the 1889 revival at the London Opera Comique of the role which made her famous, Stephanie, Marquise de Mohrivar, in Merivale and Grove?s 1879 play ?Forget Me Not?.
