"L'aimable invitation me trouve ici, attendant, aux vitres que la dernière feuille vole."

Autograph card 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. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
"L'aimable invitation me trouve ici, attendant, aux vitres que la dernière feuille vole. Vous me permettrez de m'en souvenir peu après ma rentrée à Paris." ["The kind invitation finds me here, waiting, at the windows for the last leaf to fly away. You will allow me to remember it shortly after my return to Paris."]