Letter from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger, sent from Portsea, 29 August 1916

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Title

Letter from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger, sent from Portsea, 29 August 1916

Description

Rose entrusted Melba with the secret of her own illness from syphilis. A month after writing to Percy about his father, Melba wrote, ‘I have received your letter & also read your Mother’s letter to Bella. I am so sorry for her & so humiliated that she thought it necessary to write such sad details. I burnt the letter after reading it, so now I am going to forget I ever read it.’

Creator

Nellie Melba

Source

Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne

Publisher

Grainger Museum

Date

29 August 1916

Rights

Grainger Museum

Identifier

Grainger Museum Collection, 2017/17-1/3-5
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Citation

Nellie Melba, “Letter from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger, sent from Portsea, 29 August 1916,” Grainger Museum Online, accessed May 17, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/items/show/226.

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