MAGIC. Pierre-Étienne-Auguste CHOCAT, alias HAMILTON (181218 - Lot 94

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MAGIC. Pierre-Étienne-Auguste CHOCAT, alias HAMILTON (181218 - Lot 94
MAGIC. Pierre-Étienne-Auguste CHOCAT, alias HAMILTON (18121877), magician, assistant, brother-in-law and successor of Robert Houdin, who entrusted him with his theater in 1852. P.S. "Chocat dit Hamilton" with an autograph line, Paris July 31, 1854; 1 page in-4 with tax stamp (defects). Contract for the Robert-Houdin Theater, between "Auguste Chocat-Hamilton director of the Soirées Fantastiques and the Cosmorama" and Mlle. Émilie Vandermeersch who "commits herself for one month from the tenth of September to give once a day in the room of the Soirées Fantastiques or that of the Cosmorama, a complete session of the Oiseaux Merveilleux", for 500 F per month; Mlle. Vandermeersch commits herself "not to make her experiments in any theater nor in any concert"... Attached is a L.A.S. from Étienne TRÉFEU (1821-1903, magician then librettist and theater director), to Émilie Van der Meersch, 17 May 1850 (3 p. in-8). Inflamed and desperate letter declaring his love for her...; plus 4 letters addressed to the same (defects).
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