"J'attends à chaque minute un télégramme qui m'appelle à Londres..."

Signed autograph card from Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on the recto 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 Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee.
"Merci de songer à moi qui ne vous oublie. J'attends à chaque minute un télégramme qui m'appelle à Londres, où je passerai vraisemblablement toute la semaine de Pâques..." ["Thank you for thinking of me who does not forget you. I am expecting at any moment a telegram calling me to London, where I will most likely spend the entire Easter week..."]