MALLARMÉ Stéphane (1842-1898)

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MALLARMÉ Stéphane (1842-1898)
Autograph monogrammed postscript Valvins by Avon (Seine-et-Marne), n.d. 6 pages in-12 in ink (horizontal folds and tears). Autograph monogrammed postscript following a letter from his daughter Geneviève to Paule Gobillard, painter and niece of Berthe Morisot. They haven't forgotten her, but Geneviève has been working on the "big final necklace of the Calendar, I've been writing from morning to night for the last fortnight [...] It's over now and I'm dancing with joy all by myself. How are we doing? Mother not too bad, although still suffering from eye problems; father, very fat [Mallarmé adds: "flute! SM"]; me, I'm starting to shake off my ridiculous summer illness. Ah! the runners! So we went to the seaside, abducted. [...] Valvins deserves its comical name of Valvins the Baths. Yes, Etoile [Danish friend] is at the farm and we're bathing together". The country is empty, no one has come yet: "Nothing is happening, to the great joy [Mallarmé adds: "however, it would be even greater if you were there three SMs] of my old philosopher father who works a lot". They hope to see them soon: "you would be the nicest little girls to give us [Mallarmé crosses out and corrects: "(she had repeated giving us and rambled)"] one day, so as to make this boring separation of the whole summer seem less long"... Mallarmé, in turn, takes up the pen: "I'll do better than annotating my daughter's epistole, since I kiss you at the end, the dear child having left just the right place; but you must come, the sooner I form the paternal project of starting again on less distant cheeks. So we went back home with Mr Renoir? Julie [Manet, daughter of Berthe Morisot] no longer has her headband? I can't wait to know: let's run for it [...]".
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