"... Puis je vais chanter quatre semaines... en afrique du sud... pour goualer une dernière fois en angliche avant New York en septembre prochain."

Autograph letter signed and dated by Maurice Chevalier from his property "La Louque" in Marnes-la-Coquette to Alice Rim (34 lines in blue ink, envelope included) praising the sensitivity of his correspondent who compares herself to a cow. He also writes to her about savoring his freedom to be independent and manage his career alone.
Fold mark inherent to the mailing.
The letter is addressed to Caro Canaille, pen name of Alice Rim, Carlo's wife:
"5 - 5- 55,
Dear Caro,
thank you for your letter where sensitivity - warm sympathy - passes through the words like rays of life. I will be delighted to read your play which I am quite certain is not laid by a cow as you unjustly call yourself. One never feels the heart of real cows - one simply feels their kindness. I will be in Marnes for three weeks starting from the 16th of this month. Then I will sing for four weeks... in South Africa... to croon one last time in English before New York next September. The more I go on, the more I relish my independence as a singing craftsman and the responsibilities that I face - alone - working in my room. Very truly yours. Maurice".
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.