[Sketches for La baguette].Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880[1862]freSketches, holograph, for La baguette. A few sketches for Les bavards are also present. Holograph annotations on endpapers include names and addresses; notes about composition and rehearsals for La baguette, dated 1862 November; and transcription of a poem by Julius SturmJacques Offenbach, French composer.La baguette: opera, also titled Fédia, with libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Begun in 1862; incomplete.Les bavards: opera, with libretto by Charles Nuitter, after Cervantes's Los habladores. First performed 1862.Title devised by cataloger.Contains additional blank pages.Binding: contemporary calf-backed boards, by Lard-Esnault, Paris.