WeGA, Briefe, Digitale Edition
author: Kemble, Charles
language: en
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8 Graven Hill
Bayswate,

Nov 28th 1826. [Tagesdatum undeutlich: 28 oder 20]
My dear Sir,

You may recollect that the Opera of Oberon, according to our understood arrangements with the late Karl Maria Von Weber, ought to have been produced last Easter, twelve months, and that a correspondance with that gentleman was kept up upon that subject, till it was thought more to the advantage of the Theatre that I should give him the meeting at Ems, whither he was going for the benefit of his health and definitively settle with him in person, those points which we found were not to be adjusted so well by any other method of communication - I saw him there, the points in discussion were settled by us, and in consequence of this personal arrangement Oberon was successfully represented last Easter much to the advantage and still more to the reputation of Covent Garden Theatre - but his, you may remember, was not the sole cause of my journey to the Continent - every body, in the least conversant with theatrical matters, knows how essential novelties of every kind are to the prosperity of a Theatre, and with a hope that I might be able, after I had concluded the engagement with Weber, to pick up some new pieces, or engage some new performers for the pantomimical department, likely to benefit the concern, a sort of roving commission was given me by the Proprietors to that end and the subsequent engagement of Mons Mazurier, which all previous epistolary correspondance had failed to terminate was only brought to a satisfactory conclusion by my personal negociation with him in Paris - I could go more into detail, did I not think it superfluous to do so; but cannot conclude without observing that I accepted this said roving commission at a considerable sacrifice of convenience and money, for had I been exercising my profession instead of travelling for the Theatre I should now be a richer man by at least five hundred pounds.

very truly yours, my dear Sir Ch. Kemble.