Giuseppe VERDI. Autograph musical manuscript signed, dated "15 agosto 1883"; 1 oblong page in-8. Beautiful album page with 9 bars from Aida, marked Andante, reduction for piano with the theme of the Priests. This album page was given to the newspaper Paris-Ischia, published for the benefit of the victims of the earthquake on the island of Ischia (July 28, 1883). Attached is a set of about 70 letters or manuscripts, mostly addressed to Édouard HUBERT, editor of Le Monde illustré, notably for Paris-Ischia: Juliette Adam, Paul Baudry, Cham (caricature of Déroulède), Jules Claretie, Georges Clemenceau, François Coppée (poem), Paul Dalloz, Daniel Darc (poem), John Delton, A. Desbarolles, Drouyn de Lhuys, Alexandre Dumas fils, H. Fantin-Latour, Philippe Gille, Yves Guyot, Ernest Hébert, Ernest d'Hervilly (poem), Arsène Houssaye, Victor Hugo (signature), Clovis Hugues (poem), Gustave Isambert, Anatole de La Forge, A. de Lauzières-Thémines, Hector Le Roux, Ferdinand de Lesseps, E. Macaluso (music), Albert Maignan, Jules Massenet (music, Tempo di marcia funebre), Luc Olivier Merson, Arthur Meyer, Charles Monselet, Alphonse de Neuville, Christine Nilsson, Camille Pelletan, Henri de Pène, Victor duc de Persigny, Ponson du Terrail, Édouard Portalis, Henri Rochefort, Alfred Roll, Camille Saint-Saëns (music), Victorien Sardou, John S. Sargent, Aurélien Scholl, Armand Silvestre (poem), Prince de Valori, Auguste Vacquerie, Pierre Véron, Eugène Veuillot, etc. Plus a few letters and documents from Édouard Hubert or concerning him; and a l.a.s. from Serge Lifar. 2 500 / 3 000 €