Lettre autographe signée à Michael Smithies : "Voilà un de mes rêves : parler à Oxford et cette fois encore le destin s'y oppose."

Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed to Michael Smithies. One page written in blue ballpoint pen.
Two transverse folds inherent to the mailing.
Interesting letter filled with disappointment: "Here is one of my dreams: to speak at Oxford and once again fate opposes it. I have just been very ill..." One easily understands Cocteau's state of health following the sentence, very confused: "on me me chambre la montagne vers ces dates".
"Think of the sentence I underline and let us organize something for the near future." The poet's dream would be fulfilled the following year; promoted to the rank of doctor of letters honoris causa by Oxford University on June 12, 1956, he would deliver the Discours d'Oxford on the 14th.