Autograph letter, signed

Title

Autograph letter, signed

Creator

"Will"

Date

1879-06-14

Description

[Unidentified correspondent "Will".] Autograph letter signed. To unidentified recipient "George". New York State Senate, June 14, 1879. Four pages, small 8vo.

A detailed letter describing Pinafore-mania in Albany, New York.

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"....Albany is sorely afflicted--got it the worst way! Pinafore-- Oh my! I am so disgusted with that phrase "Hardly ever etc." I feel like shooting every one I hear use it--"HMS" is ...

Type

StillImage

Language

English

Is Part Of

H.M.S. Pinafore

Format

image/jpeg

Rights

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Medium

letters (correspondence)

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Call number

D.486

Transcription

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getting to be a worse eyesore on the bill boards than "Hop Bitters." It wasnt enough to have a travelling company bring it here every other week, so Loyd....gets up a company of his own....then Theo Mosher he has a fearful attack of the fever and gets up a different companythen the epidemic strikes one McGoldrick up in Limerick and he gets up a company...and calls it the "North Albany Pinafore Co."

These three companies each bring it out in the city about once a week and the rest of the time they inflict the neighboring villages...There must be something done or all Albany will be lost....I guess the Penitentiary is the only place

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in Albany where it has not been brought out, and some that they have "sent up" recently from the city have become so frantic over it that solitary confinement is found necessary.

A child ten years old can play any of the Pinafore airs on St. Peters chimes while it takes four stout men to play any common church tune--the hammers refusing to work on anything but Pinafore.

Pianos, by merely walking across the floor are jarred enough to rattle a whole Pinafore air out of them without touching the keyboard.

The Telephone Co. have found it almost impossible to use their wires in the city, and some talk of closing up their office till the fever dies out, the wires are loaded with Pinafore---one wire broke over in Beaver St., and one of "Little Buttercups" songs spilled all over the roof, and the slack wire curled up into these letters "H.M.S."---Oh, its terrible--worse than yellow fever..."

Place of Publication

Albany (N.Y.)

Collection

Gilbert and Sullivan: From London To America

Citation

"Will", “Autograph letter, signed,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 21, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/5470.

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