".... je vous remercie de votre dédicace où je peux voir l'expression d'une sympathie qui m'est précieuse..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by Francis Viélé-Griffin (20 lines in violet ink from his property in Nazelles, Indre-et-Loire) addressed to Edouard Ducoté, poet, bibliophile and director of the review l'Ermitage since 1895.
Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope.
He thanks his fellow poet Edouard Ducoté for the latest book he has just sent him with a dedication, and expresses his delight at having been invited by him to contribute some of his poems to the review l'Ermitage: "I shall gladly collaborate, in the form of some poems, with your review which I always read with interest and profit..."
Francis Viélé-Griffin also mentions a painting by his friend Théo Van Rysselberghe depicting Madame Edouard Ducoté that he recently noticed in his studio: "... a truly charming portrait..."
A close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, friend of André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis Jammes, and 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.