Typed Note Signed.
This French composer, one of Marcel Proust and Sarah Bernhardt's best buddies, was a wildly prolific composer of operas and operettas, popular melodies and sacred music, oratorios and cantatas, ballets and chamber music, on and on and on. Item #52481
TNS (in French), 1p, 4" X 7" aerogramme, Paris, France, 3 October 1925. Very good. Mild edgewear and touch of age toning. Addressed to opera singer Emile Engel (1847-1927). Brief note to a friend on pale green stock, reading in part (in translation): "I would have been delighted to hear from your wife, since she is also your student. Unfortunately, it is now too late for Cannes, where I have all my guests, and besides, I must leave any minute. I will only be in Paris very intermittently until my departure for Cannes...." Boldly signed at the close in blue ink. Address portion, stamped and cancelled, on verso.
Price: $150.00