"...vous songez si j'ai été touché de la lettre de Monsieur Louis Dyer..."

Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on both sides in black ink. With envelope.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and served as secretary and testamentary legatee to Edmond.
Mallarmé mentions a future stay in Oxford and thanks Delzant for having recommended him to a friend: "...vous songez si j'ai été touché de la lettre de Monsieur Louis Dyer, de qui me voici connu tout de suite et comme anciennement, à travers vous. Je lui réponds, avant que je ne fasse, si heureux, sa connaissance. Hôte, je ne pourrai l'être, M. Powell, qui a eu l'initiative de ma conférence, m'ayant de longue date offert son toit, pendant mon bref séjour à Oxford..." ["...you can imagine how touched I was by the letter from Monsieur Louis Dyer, through whom I find myself known immediately and as if from long ago, through you. I am writing back to him, before I have the pleasure of making his acquaintance. I will not be able to be a host, as M. Powell, who initiated my lecture, has long since offered me his roof during my brief stay in Oxford..."]
Mallarmé would indeed give a lecture on aesthetics on March 1st, 1894 at Oxford, the text of which was published in 1895 under the title Oxford, Cambridge. La musique et les lettres.