"Je suis désastreux."

Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant; two pages written in black ink on a double sheet. 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.
"Je suis désastreux. Voici que lundi prochain, me rappelle-t-on à la maison, j'ai du envoyer, dans la soirée, un travail à Londres et qu'on a déjà remis au lundi suivant une invitation chez des amis, pour ce motif..." ["I am disastrous. Here it is that next Monday, I am reminded at home, I have to send, in the evening, some work to London and that an invitation from friends has already been postponed to the following Monday, for this reason..."]
The "work" mentioned in this letter is the article entitled "Théodore de Banville" which would appear in the National Observer of December 17, 1892.