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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;khl889, post: 51178, member: 104&quot;]From <i>Louis Moreau Gottschalk,</i> by S. Frederick Starr, p.10:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]12911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>His papers are apparently at the New York Public LIbrary.</p><p><br /></p><p>This from a review of the collection at the NYPL, <i>A Gottschalk Collection Surveyed</i>, by Richard Jackson, p.367:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;As something of a climax to his stay [in San Francisco], a little more than two weeks</i></p><p><i>before his clandestine departure, a group of forty prominent members</i></p><p><i>of the community . . . presented Gottschalk with a large gold medal</i></p><p><i>encrusted with diamonds and rubies. [Described as] &#039;nine inches in circumference,&#039;</i></p><p><i>containing &#039;six plates of auriferous quartz of different</i></p><p><i>colours,&#039; and bearing the initials &#039;L.M.G.&#039; in diamonds surrounded by</i></p><p><i>a laurel wreath in diamonds and rubies. The verso of the medal contained</i></p><p><i>the words &#039;To Gottschalk: a token from his California friends.</i></p><p><i>25 Aug. 1865.&#039;&quot; </i></p><p><br /></p><p>thompsonian.info/Gottschalk-More-Notes-of-a-Pianist.pdf[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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