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 In a diary Samson kept during his professional career we find the following entry:—

Before closing this chapter we must give a letter of Poirson's, the manager of the Gymnase, written to Rachel when she had become famous. It was found carefully laid away among Rachel's papers after her death. The expressions of affection show the feeling he cherished for the young girl whose genius he had been the first to recognise.