"Comme j'en aurais des choses à vous dire, aujourd'hui, éclairées par tant de souvenirs qui sont beaucoup des vôtres..."

Moving autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques-Henri Lartigue (26 lines in blue ballpoint pen) addressed from Piozzo in Italy to his friend Jane Willemetz who has just lost her husband, the librettist, lyricist and screenwriter Albert Willemetz.
Fold mark inherent to the mailing. Envelope included.
The photographer, overwhelmed by the deaths of their close friends, feels overcome by melancholy: "How far from Paris I feel today... too far to come and embrace you. You know that I am grieving! ..."
He cannot stop thinking about recently departed friends: "First my Sacha! after Jean Cocteau! And now our wonderful, charming and luminous Albert! How many irreplaceable friends! " and attempts to comfort Jane Willemetz: "But I do not want to speak to you today and only to embrace you with all my great affection. You and yours."