System Number: 05252
Date: [30 January 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: [Henri Roujon[2]?]
Place: [Paris?]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler R148(a)
Document Type: ALd[3]
Cher Monsieur -
Je viens de recevoir, par la gracieuse lettre que m'a lue Monsieur notre ami m Mallarmé[4] la nouvelle si flatteuse [pour?] de ma promotion dans l'Ordre de la Legion d'honneur. En attendant que je puisse avoir l'honneur de vous remercier personnellement de tout l'im y comprise cette dernière attention, recevez ch croyez moi mon cher Monsieur
[toute?] [tres?]
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Translation:
Dear Sir -
I have just received by the gracious letter read to me by Mr our friend Mallarmé the very flattering news [for?] of my promotion in the Order of the Legion of honour. Whilst waiting until I may have the honour of thanking you in person for everything including this recent consideration accept believe me my dear Sir
[wholly?] [very?]
Notes:
1. [30 January 1892]
Dated by Barbier (see below).
2. Henri Roujon
Henri Roujon (1853-1914), alias 'Henry Laujol', writer and administrator [more]. It is not absolutely certain that this was addressed to Roujon, since the official news of JW's promotion in the Order was sent to JW by Alexandre Joseph Félix Ribot (1842-1922), French prime minister [more], on 3 February 1892, #11036.
3. ALd
On the verso is another draft, #13316. Published by Barbier, Carl P., ed., Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964 [GM, A.28], p. 148, note 4, omitting JW's textual deletions.
4. Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Symbolist writer and poet [more].