20 Apr 2011
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Manuscripts from the Estate of Charles Williamson & Tucker Fleming
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Manuscripts from the Estate of Charles Williamson & Tucker Fleming
Back to auction 19377
VERLAINE, PAUL.
Autograph Letter Signed ("P. Verlaine"), 2 pp rectos only, 12mo (conjoined leaves), 16 rue St Victor, July 1, [18]95, to Vanier.
Verlaine writes to his friend and publisher, mentioning his Fêtes Galantes, alluding to the illustrator Adolphe Léon Willette, commenting on a sonnet he has just finished, and promising instead his first "poésie fugitive" (likely one of the poems in Chair: dernières poésies, 1896).
Verlaine writes to his friend and publisher, mentioning his Fêtes Galantes, alluding to the illustrator Adolphe Léon Willette, commenting on a sonnet he has just finished, and promising instead his first "poésie fugitive" (likely one of the poems in Chair: dernières poésies, 1896).
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