Excerpt from Verdi: Milan and Othello: Being a Short Life of Verdi, With Letters Written About Milan and the New Opera of Othello Represented for the First Time on the Stage of La Scala Theatre, Feb, 5, 1887

When I left England for Italy, you said, Do write me all about Verdi, Milan, and the new Opera Othello. I have taken you at your word, only the letters, like most feminine epistles, have stretched away into limitless pages, and from a few vagabond sheets have grown into avolume. I am sure you will never again ask a woman to write to you, even from Paradise, but in the mean time, here is the result of your amiability, and, knowing that the work never would have been written without you, I dedicate it to you. I hope also that it may recall to your mind not alone a composer, a country, and a people whom you have long so professedly admired, but likewise the humble colleague who, with the world, owes you more delightful hours than any pen - not your own - could ever hope to repay.

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