Autograph postcard signed by Frédéric Mistral, addressed to Emile Straus and written in black ink on the verso of a black-and-white photographic view of the Arch and Mausoleum of Saint-Rémy near Arles: "A Martine [one of Straus's pseudonyms] qui trop embrase mal éteint."
A passionate devotee of epistolary art, Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée, the newsletter of the International Poste-Carte Club he had just established.