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Lot Number
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235
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Author
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CHOPIN, FRÉDÉRIC.
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Title
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CH"), TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND THE CELLIST AUGUSTE FRANCHOMME, ("CHÉRISSIME"),
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Description
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CH"), TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND THE CELLIST AUGUSTE FRANCHOMME, ("CHÉRISSIME"), informing him that he is installed in Dover St, London, that his health has improved and that he has been coughing less, though in the previous days he has been laid low, he sends his regards to Madame Franchomme and his love to him 3 pages, 8vo, with autograph envelope, postmarked, London, 1 May [18]48, some splitting at folds ...Me voilà seulement installé. J'ai enfin une chambre—belle et grande—où je pourrai respirer et jouer—et le soleil vient me voir aujourd'hui pour la première fois. J'étouffe moins ce matin mais toute la semaine passée j'étais bon à rien....
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Lot Note
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This autograph letter has never been offered for sale before. It has come by descent through the Franchomme family. This letter is inaccurately published in Sydow [no.714], who silently corrects Chopin's grammatical mistakes and changes certain words. This letter was written in the year before he died, when he was suffering from the tuberculosis that was to kill him eventually. In two places in this letter Chopin deletes some words: when he describes his coughing and when he asks, rather oddly, if Franchomme is becoming more calm. Certain sentences here clearly had a deeper meaning for Chopin than they might seem.
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Estimated Price
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GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00( USD 22650.00 - USD 30200.00)
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Actual Price
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GBP 63,650.00 ( USD 96111.50)
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