Sully Prudhomme Signed Autographed Letter to Georges Lafenestre Poems 1903

  

Sully PRUDHOMME - SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO Georges LAFENESTRE, 1903.

Signed autograph letter to Georges Lafenestre, dated September 3, 1903. He talks about poetry, his health, and that of his correspondent. "Your poetry is absolutely charming and beautiful...

What grace and accuracy at the same time! However sad your current state of health may be, I am delighted to learn that the doctors assure you of recovery, provided that you give up your tiring lessons. I have not been working on my Pascal for some time; I am refurbishing old poems whose drafts have been lying around in my drawers since 1862 and seem worthy of being saved."

Dimensions: 11.2 x 14 cm.

Condition: See photos for more details. Number of pages: 1 page. René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme, was born in Paris on March 16, 1839, and died in Châtenay-Malabry on September 6, 1907. He was a French poet, the first laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Georges Lafenestre was a French poet, art critic, and art historian born on May 5, 1837, in Orléans, and died on May 19, 1919, in Bourg-la-Reine. Autographed letters, old papers, ancient books, photographs, engravings, stamps...

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