Letter from James Stephen Martin to Henry Clay Frick, 17 March 1898

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LETTERHEAD JAMES STEPHEN MARTIN, 6201 WALNUT STREET, PITTSBURG. /LETTERHEAD

Dear M. Frick

M. Capouls SIC estimate of Vaughans SIC voice seems to me quite accurate and just, he however thinks of him as a possible candidate for opera, a natural thing since all french SIC teaching is in that direction and Capoul himself had a successful operatic career.

I have only considered Vaughans SIC talent as available for church, conert and oratorio, & from that point of view I think

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it has or will have a real marketable value. He is too old to learn stage action.

Mr. Knoedler's probably hurried translation slightly modifies one or two of the concluding sentence - "beau timbre" instead of "good tone" should read "beautiful quality," and "grande étendue" instead of "large volume" I think should be "large compass".

I enclose a letter from M. George Sweet, one of the leading teachers in New York whom I asked Vaughan to call upon.

I had expected to go in with Vaughan but at the last moment was obliged to give it up

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