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"I am this Louise Mascot Obaldiston Born August 9th 1896 Born Lake Titus, camp mascot twelve miles from the nearest city Malone New York State (Lake Titus) is in the Aderondacks mountains near the boarder of Canada and at the time I was born was a wilderness.  Christened at Trinity Church Wall Street N. Y. City Father, Edward Pie Osbaldiston M.D. English, Mother Louisa White American, Marries Louis Vesely Czech Bohemian Chicago August 2nd 1916  Left New York for South America tour with Pavlova Feb. 8th 1917…Baby born Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Dec. 23rd 1916, Mascot Louise Pavlova Vesely.  Such is the sad history of my life, weep dear friends and be glad thine is not like wish and as now my hand is tired and weary and you are dreary of hearing from me……" 

For anyone who may have an interest in Mascot Obaldiston Vesely, who was a ballerina in Anna Pavlova's company under the name Mascot Moscovina, I am in possession of 20+ letters to a close friend of hers describing her entire life, marriage, work with Pavlova and various events surrounding her life.  We are music antiquarians and the group of letters are for sale, along with a photograph, scrapbooks she made of her time with Pavlova and other materials.  She states in the letter she was born in 1894 upstate New York to a British physician and American mother, baptised at Trinty Church in NYC.  Her last letter written in 1920 shows her still dancing, however, she states she has pleurisy and consumption.  As the letters went to a dear friend and stop there, one can only think the outcome was not a good one.

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