"... J'ai vu Gide à ce sujet ; il a accepté de participer d'une façon modeste à la consolidation financière de cette revue utile... "

Autograph letter signed by Francis Viélé-Griffin (31 lines in black ink from La Roche à Guet in the Vienne) addressed to Edouard Ducoté, poet, bibliophile and director of the review l'Ermitage since 1895.
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Several poets, including Francis Viélé-Griffin, band together to provide financial assistance to the dying review Antée: "... il se crée un consortium de nos amis pour assurer la publication d'Antée, menacée par une fugue de son ex-directeur..." ["a consortium of our friends is being created to ensure the publication of Antée, threatened by the flight of its former director..."], which is why he solicits his friend Edouard Ducoté as a contributor: "Puis-je compter sur vous pour une somme trimestrielle de cent francs ? ce serait de votre part un acte de solidarité..." ["May I count on you for a quarterly sum of one hundred francs? this would be an act of solidarity on your part..."] and also Stuart Merrill.
Close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, friend of André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis Jammes, Emile Verhaeren, Francis Viélé-Griffin was an American symbolist poet who wrote in French. He became, along with Gustave Kahn, one of the principal theorists of free verse.