BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897). Autograph letter signed ('Johannes Brahms') to the Hamburg musician Georg Dietrich Otten, postmarked Düsseldorf, 26 February [1856], 2 pages, large 4to (285 x 237mm) (tear across centre fold, approx 130mm, and to lower margin, approx 10mm, repaired with old tape), integral address leaf, clear impression of Brahms's seal with the initials 'J.B.' in red wax (seal tear). Provenance: sale at Henrici, Berlin, 1929; collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon; The Collector, November 1951, vol. LXIV, no.10.