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Autograph letter-card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written in black ink on both sides. With the original envelope.
Enclosed with this letter is a quatrain in Mallarmé’s hand: "Tout en les éternisant / Bracquemond ici fait vivre / Les traits d'Alidor Delzant / A nous ouvert comme un livre."
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector, and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers, he devoted a book to them and served as Edmond’s secretary and testamentary executor.
A delightful card in which the “poëte ordinaire” refers to the making of his portrait by his friend, the painter Whistler: "j'ai

Autograph card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on both sides in black ink. Envelope included.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
"L'aimable invitation me trouve ici, attendant, aux vitres que la dernière feuille vole. Vous me permettrez de m'en souvenir peu après ma rentrée à Paris." ["The kind invitation finds me here, waiting, at the windows for the last leaf to fly away. You will allow me to remember it shortly after my return to Paris."]

Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written in black ink on the verso of a card. With envelope.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee.
"Vole, avec ce qui t'environne / A Paraÿs, Lot-et-Garonne / Notre coeur, qui n'es pas pris qu'aux / Séductions des abricots" ["Fly, with all that surrounds you / To Paraÿs, Lot-et-Garonne / Our heart, which is not taken only by / The seductions of apricots"]
Amusing stanza of thanks for sending apricots.

Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written in black ink on the verso of a card. Envelope included.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee.
"Vous n'avez pas su nos / Exclamations : Qu'est-ce ? / Avant tant de pruneaux / Savourés dans leur caisse" ["You did not know our / Exclamations: What is this? / Before so many prunes / Savored in their box"]
Amusing stanza of thanks for the sending of prunes.