Adrien Remacle signed autograph letter Paul Verlaine 1893 Contemporary Review

  
Director of the Contemporary Review, writer. Autographed letter signed to a colleague regarding Paul Verlaine. The document is in fair condition: the two sheets are detached, and a central fold threatens to give way (see photos). The very peculiar life, difficult to follow of Verlaine, as well as the delays in the payment of contributions, force me to interrupt the subscription of the 28 cent-souists that we had organized, effective from January 1st.

If you would agree to pay the [illegible] from July to December, please do so directly to Verlaine, but notify me by letter, as the good poet simply accuses me of pocketing the amount of the delays. The Contemporary to which Verlaine contributed, the writer and musician Adrien Remacle, in return became the subject of a poem in the collection. A bouquet of rhymes nominally offered to personal friends, for the most part.

Published by Vanier in 1890 and enriched in 1894, he set to music a work by the cursed poet. We have not found any trace of this subscription in honor of Verlaine, but it adds to the long list of all those organized to support him during his lifetime, due to his miserable existence and catastrophic end of life. A beautiful document for its content, useful for the history of Verlaine and his reception among his contemporaries, but in a fragile state (see photos).