Daniel François Esprit AUBER (1782-1871). L.A.S., November 4, 1840, to Germain Delavigne, curator of Crown furniture; 2 pages in-8. As "directeur de la musique du Roi", he sends and comments on invoices and statements of expenditure for the eight concerts given by "la musique du Roi" at the Palais de Saint-Cloud in September and October. He points out that he had to employ auxiliaries "for the pieces requested by the Royal family, and for the performance of which the orchestra of the King's music, which is not complete, could not suffice". He recalls that he had already "pointed out that there was only one bassoon, and that the appointment of a second seemed indispensable to me"...