System Number: 13618
Date: [May/June 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Call Number: Nouv. Acq. Fr. 15288, page 93, f. 92
Document Type: ALS[3]
21, CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
33, rue de Tournon,
Samedi.
Cher Poète! –
C'était donc à qui de nous deux guarderait le plus long temps le silence! –
Je cède – et j'avoue que j'ai bien envie de revoir notre d'Artagnan[4] qui vous a donné tant de peine!
Que dites vous de Lundi – ou Mardi –
à trois heures? –
[butterfly signature]
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Translation:
Dear Poet! – So it was a question as to which of us two would keep silent the longest? I give in – and I admit that I would really like to see our d'Artagnan who has given you so much trouble!
What do you say to Monday – or Tuesday –
at three o'clock? –
Notes:
1. [May/June 1892]
Dated by address.
2. Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), Symbolist writer and poet, and collector [more].
3. ALS
Published by Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990, no. 99, pp. 187-88.
4. Artagnan
Montesquiou was supposedly related to ; this is an oblique reference to sittings for Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (YMSM 398).