Qualifications for the Career of Impresario--My First Appearance as Violinist--_Début_ as a Vocalist--Difficulties as a Critic--Engaged at Lodi and Verona--Radical Operation on my Throat--I start as Musical Agent--Meeting with Mr. E. T. Smith--Management of Drury Lane pp. 1-12 Injunction against the Birds on the Trees--Drury Lane Season of 1859--_Débuts_ of Victoire Balfe, Mongini, and Guarducci--My Contralto Marries a Duke--The Duke and Duchess at Naples pp. 13-22…
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