Autograph correspondence card signed.

Oblong 12mo. 2 pp. Explaining to an unnamed recipient that she could not visit her because of "most painful" sciatica, lamenting that she will be unable to attend an event due to scheduling conflicts: "Que vous êtes bonne de penser à moi. Je serais allée vous voir depuis longtemps si une sciatique, des plus douloureuses, ne m'avait pas empêché de sortir. Dès que le mauvais temps ne me tiendra plus prisonnière, j'irai vous embrasser et vous remercier de votre gracieuseté. Mais, hélàs ! je ne puis profiter de votre billet, car je reçois les 1iers et 3ièmes dimanches chez moi. Quelle contrariété [.]". - Following a brief and moderately successful career in opera and recital, Mathilde Marchesi turned to teaching in 1849. She taught at the Cologne and Vienna conservatories before she opened her own school on Rue Jouffroy-d'Abbans in Paris in 1881. Her most famous student is undoubtedly Nellie Melba, but she also trained such important singers as Emma Calvé, Frances Alda, Ellen Gulbranson, Selma Kurz, and Emma Eames. - With traces of former mounting touching the text (no loss to text).