Recollections and reflections, a professional autobiography . WKsua, J l 6 * ^. ^ J TL uyr\ n ^ju^A (p****-t hi i • U tO RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. 133 manager of an English Opera House on a scale inaccordance with the increased taste for and knowledgeof music. An offer was made to me of a similar posi-tion at Drury Lane to that which I held at the Lyceum,and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews having kindly per-mitted me to accept it, I entered into an engagementwith Jullien which Alfred Forrester, better known asAlfred Crowquill, who was his acting-manager, wassanguine enough to believe would e
Recollections and reflections, a professional autobiography . WKsua, J l 6 * ^. ^ J TL uyr\ n ^ju^A (p****-t hi i • U tO RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. 133 manager of an English Opera House on a scale inaccordance with the increased taste for and knowledgeof music. An offer was made to me of a similar posi-tion at Drury Lane to that which I held at the Lyceum,and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews having kindly per-mitted me to accept it, I entered into an engagementwith Jullien which Alfred Forrester, better known asAlfred Crowquill, who was his acting-manager, wassanguine enough to believe would endure almost, if notquite, as long as I should—a belief which, with hisfacile crowquill, he illustrated in pen-and-inksketches of me when I was engaging, and whenmy engagement should be finished. Vide facsimile—not of me, but of his fancy pictures. Unfortunatelyneither the verbal nor the pictorial prediction was tobe fulfilled, notwithstanding the splendid start given tothe enterprise by the success of the opera Lucia deLammermoor, in an English version of whichMadame
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