Meisl, Carl, Viennese stage author and official, one of the most fertile representatives of the Viennese folk comedy of Vormärz, wrote more than 200 plays (1775-1853). Eigh. Letter m. U. "Carl Meisl, k. k. ==References== 3 p. Double leaf. 4to. Vienna 29.X.1851 (?). To an apparently revered theaterman (Johann Nestroy?), whom he addresses with "Euer Wohledelborn" and asks in detail in an emphatically touching tone for a young man from a poor family for the recommendation for a position at the Graz theatre. "... may hardly remember a name lost by his age, who or whose name bearer was once lucky, to be able to boast of your kind goodwill. The purpose of my daring letter, justified only by firm trust in your humanitarian knowledge, is to send the Uiberbringer of the same - August Prince, the poor son of the first father, who formerly - a respected teacher and educator, for almost 12 years incurably ill and wretched - 5 unscathed children starved at his bed. The oldest son, who can't overcome the drive to make his fortune at the stage, is so master of piano playing that at every theater until he becomes an actor - even in the practice of rehearsals, and even as a chorister could be used quite pre-emptively, he could no longer see the domestic lamentation, and The magnificent Fraeulein [Louise] Neumann of the Hoftheater begebt sich with the travel money to Graz, in order to find at the theater there the most limited accommodation. I therefore dare to recommend this man, who is fervent in love for art, and yet so deplorable a man of your own human love ...". Through a kind intercession of the addressee, he might find admission to the Graz theatre director Thomé in order to "be able to train himself as an actor without succumbing to the pressure of his fate ...". - Very rare.