".... vous savez le goût que j'ai pour votre manière, de légère ironie et de cette vérité, toujours un peu risible pour qui sait la voir..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by Francis Viélé-Griffin (30 lines in violet ink from his Parisian residence) 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 showers praise on his fellow poet Edouard Ducoté who has just sent him his latest work and also thanks him for the article that l'Ermitage devoted to his latest collection (L'amour sacré published in 1903): "... I have written my thanks to the critic... I have a copy for him that I have not yet been able to send him..."
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.