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Stéphane MALLARME

Carte autographe signée adressée à Alidor Delzant : "Je vous souhaite un temps moins fantasque, encore qu'il doive rendre charmante la mer."

Paris 31 mars 1895, 11,4x8,8cm, une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe.

Handwritten signed letter addressed to Alidor Delzant: “Je vous souhaite un temps moins fantasque, encore qu'il doive rendre charmante la mer.” “I wish you a less whimsical time, although it must make the sea charming”
Paris 31 mars 1895, 11.4 x 8.8 cm, one recto-verso letter and an envelope
Handwritten signed letter from Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on two sides in black ink. Envelope attached.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friends with the Goncourts, he dedicated a book to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary beneficiary.
“Je ne sais plus personne à Londres, envers qui je fus si infidèle ; mais pour Oxford, voici ma carte avec un mot à l'adresse de mon hôte et ami, M. York Powell. M. Louis Dyer, à qui vous porterez mes compliments les meilleurs, le connaît ; et, sans doute Cazalis, porteur, l'an dernier, d'un mot, de moi, à son adresse. Je vous souhaite un temps moins fantasque, encore qu'il doive rendre charmante la mer.” “I no longer know anyone in London, to whom I was so unfaithful; but for Oxford, here is my card with a note for my host and friend, Mr York Powell. Mr Louis Dyer, to whom you will give my best wishes, knows him; and, undoubtedly Cazalis, last year's bearer of a note from me to his address. I wish you a less whimsical time, although it must make the sea charming.”
Mallarmé knew Oxford well, having delivered a lecture there the previous year under the auspices of Frederick York Powell, a history professor. Louis Dyer, friend of Delzant, is a former Oxford student and then a professor of Greek at Harvard. Through Delzat, he had offered hospitality to Mallarmé.

 

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