Reynaldo Hahn, Marcel Proust’s lover, autograph signed letter

  

Autograph letter signed by Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, singer, and music critic of Venezuelan origin, who was Marcel Proust’s closest companion, undated. Written in blue ink on a sheet of vellum paper.

“Hotel des Empereurs, Tarascon

Madam,

I would be grateful if you would kindly send me, to the above address, a metal-framed mirror that I forgot in the room I occupied from the 5th to the 7th (room 11).

Please accept my warm regards.

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Dimensions: 13.4 x 20.9 cm.
Condition: Skillful restoration, otherwise in very good condition.

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Number of pages: 2 pages.

Reynaldo Hahn, born on August 9, 1874 in Caracas and died on January 28, 1947 in Paris, was a French composer, conductor, singer, and music critic of Venezuelan origin, who was Marcel Proust’s closest companion. Marcel Proust, born on July 10, 1871 in Paris and died on November 18, 1922 in the same city, was a French writer whose main work is the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, published between 1913 and 1927.

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