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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...discover just when the first public performance of the opera was given. He has transcribed a letter from Prof. Child in which he says that the Fishball opera (II Pesceballo) was printed for a series of performances in Cambridge in the Spring of 1862. Mr. Wakeman's copy of the second edition has a pencil memorandum: Given at house of Miss Parsons, Garden St. May 6, 1862. With this as a guide, Mr. Chamberlain visited the family of Miss Parsons in December, 1902, and saw in their possession a copy of the book (also second edition) with inscription: Emily Parsons May 1862 Cambridge. At the earlier performances, at least, the tenor part was taken by Dr. W. Langmaid, the basso by Mr. Underwood, and the soprano by Mrs. Benjamin Apthorp Gould. The reprint published in 1899 by the Caxton Club of Chicago was made from a copy of the third edition. It contains an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton: This jeu d'esprit was written in Italian by Francis James Child and was sung frequently in Boston and vicinity during the later years of the Civil War, the proceeds being turned over to Edward Everett for his fund for the relief of the loyal people of East Tennessee who had been impoverished by the war. The proceeds of later performances may have been used for other charities. The verso of each leaf contains Prof. Child's Italian text, while Lowell's translation into English is on the recto of the next leaf, facing it. This translation, no doubt considered by him of the most ephemeral character, is not included in any of the collected editions of Lowell's works. Laid in Mr. Chamberlain's copy was a letter from Charles Eliot Norton, dated April 4, 1902, in which he says: 'II Pesceballo' was originally issued in bro...

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