THE MAPLESON MEMOIRS

VOL. I.

THE MAPLESON MEMOIRS

1848-1888

IN TWO VOLUMES

WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR

VOL I

CHICAGO, NEW YORK, AND SAN FRANCISCO
BELFORD, CLARKE & CO.,
PUBLISHERS.
1888
[All rights reserved].

TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.

PREFACE.

HAVING been repeatedly urged by numerous friends on both sides of theAtlantic to set forth a few of the difficulties attending the career ofan impresario, who, during the last thirty years, has fought manyoperatic battles, I have undertaken the task, having at the presentmoment for the first time in my recollection a few weeks of comparativerepose before again renewing my lyrical campaigns.

I willingly sat down to the work, trusting that an account of the fewpartial defeats and the many brilliant victories incident to my life maybe found interesting.

This being my first appearance as an author, I am naturally unpractisedin the artifices of style familiar to more experienced hands.

Some of my plain statements of facts will not, I fear, be fullyappreciated by the personages to whom they refer; and in case theyshould feel offended by my frankness, I ask their pardon beforehand,convinced that they will readily accord it.

J. H. MAPLESON.

Junior Carlton Club,
21st September, 1888.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Qualifications for the Career of Impresario—My First Appearanceas Violinist—Début as a Vocalist—Difficulties as aCritic—Engaged at Lodi and Verona—Radical Operationon my Throat—I start as Musical Agent—Meeting withMr. E. T. Smith—Management of Drury Lane	pp. 1-12
CHAPTER II.
Injunction against the Birds on the Trees—Drury Lane Seasonof 1859—Débuts of Victoire Balfe, Mongini, and Guarducci—MyContralto Marries a Duke—The Duke andDuchess at Naples	pp. 13-22
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THE MAPLESON MEMOIRS

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