Léo DELIBES (1836-1891). 5 L.A.S., [1876-1879 and s.d.], to various; 17 pages in-8 or in-12. About his ballet Sylvia and his operas. Clichy-la-Garenne [1876?], to librettist Jules Barbier, after a mood swing... at the beginning of next week I will make arrangements with Reinach to come and ask you for hospitality, and I hope at the same time to be able to play you a good part of our last act [Sylvia? - Saturday [1876?], to publisher Henri Heugel, about his ballet Sylvia ou la Nymphe de Diane. He doesn't move from his desk and is frightened by the task I've set myself of orchestrating 3 large acts in 2 1/2 months! But under no circumstances do I want to be the cause of an hour's delay... The next day is the double audition of Lauwers and Mlle Fauvelle, who is being considered for the role of Diane [...] Your opinion would carry a great deal of weight over mine, which is always so undecided; and this is a capital question! ... Paris February 3 [1879], to his Viennese friend Felix, requesting news from Vienna, and asking him to remove Le Roi l'a dit from the ruins of the Komische Oper and take it to the Opéra. Jean de Nivelle, which will be definitively housed at the Opéra-Comique and which I hope to perform before the end of the exhibition, towards autumn... He refers to the great success of Le Petit Duc: from an artistic and purely musical point of view, I must hate it [...] Has Rheingold been performed here? Now that's serious... - Saint-Germain September 23 [1879], to singer Juliette Bilbaut-Vauchelet, about her role in Jean de Nivelle, with postscript by librettist Philippe Gille (autographed photograph of the singer attached). - 1879, to Henri Heugel?], about Jean de Nivelle and the cast he discussed with Carvalho, Ph. Gille and Gondinet...