"...j'ai, du reste, à vous parler de M. Dyer."

Autograph card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on the recto in black ink. Envelope attached.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was the secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
Card written upon return from a trip to Oxford during which Mallarmé gave a lecture on aesthetics: "...j'ai, du reste, à vous parler de M. Dyer." ["...I have, moreover, to speak to you about M. Dyer."] Louis Dyer, friend of Delzant, is an Oxford alumnus and was then professor of Greek at Harvard. Through Delzant's intermediary, he had offered hospitality to Mallarmé who did not know him before his lecture, but this card attests that the two men finally met.