"Je le craignais, que vous n'eussiez pas rencontré M. York Powell, en le voyant, l'autre soir, apparaître rue de Rome."

Autograph letter 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. A friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee.
"Je le craignais, que vous n'eussiez pas rencontré M. York Powell, en le voyant, l'autre soir, apparaître rue de Rome. Encore rapportez-vous du merveilleux Oxford un souvenir..." ["I feared as much, that you had not met M. York Powell, seeing him, the other evening, appear on rue de Rome. Still you bring back from wonderful Oxford a memory..."]
Mallarmé had recommended his friend Frederick York Powell, professor of history, to Delzant who was to travel to Oxford in March 1895. It appears from this letter that the two men had not met previously.