Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — Patti’s Autograph Hobby. [ARTICLE]

Patti’s Autograph Hobby.

Autograph collecting is one of the most harmless as well as the most interesting of hobbies, and when a celebrated person takes to keeping an album of autographs a collection of more than usual value is likely to be the result. It is not generally known that among others who share this weakness is that greatest of singers, Mme Adelini Patti. For many years past no friend of any distinction has been permitted to pass the threshold of the prima donna until he or she has written a few words either upon Mme. I’atti herself or upon some other subject of interest. The consequence is that the signatures of almost every notability both in and outside of the musical world are to be found in one of her albums, while, besides these, are many letters of well-known composers and musicians which Mme. Patti has had presented to her or has herself purchased. Among these are letters from Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and other illustrious ones. All things are false to Reason that lie beyond her apprehension.