Series of autograph letters, notes and cards to Baron Eugène Fould and his wife Mitzi Springer ("Cher Monsieur", "Cher Monsieur et Ami", "Chère Madame", "Chers Amis" where addressed), the five letters signed variously "Comte Robert de Montesquiou", "Robert de Montesquiou", "R.M." or "Cte. R. de M.", discussing arrangements to meet and meals, a recent event which left him full of regret (at "actes non accomplis et des paroles non dittes, bien plutôt que de gestes déplorés et des propos incosiéerés") and leading to observations on a piece of turquoise jewellery and the merits of ties, referring to a kind gesture ("qui me touche avant tout et charme plus encore"), discussing the "singulier symbolisme" of a 'mysterious object' in conjunction with the 13th of the month and Saturn; in the letter to Mitzi he begins "Qu'aurait dit la graphologie, de les belles oriflammes qui accompagnent vos paroles écrites" and again thanks her for some act of generosity; together with an autograph postcard sent from Engadine, Switzerland (dated March 1909), two cryptic initialled autograph notes, and three autograph visiting cards, the letters 12 pages in total, on Montesquiou's notepaper with winged bat motif (one embossed in silver), with envelope inscribed by Mitzi "Lettres de Robert de Montesquiou à Eugène et à moi", 8vo and oblong 4to, "Neuilly" or "Pavillon des Muses", December 1908-1909
Series of autograph letters, notes and cards to Baron Eugène Fould and his wife Mitzi Springer ("Cher Monsieur", "Cher Monsieur et Ami", "Chère Madame", "Chers Amis" where addressed), the five letters signed variously "Comte Robert de Montesquiou", "Robert de Montesquiou", "R.M." or "Cte. R. de M.", discussing arrangements to meet and meals, a recent event which left him full of regret (at "actes non accomplis et des paroles non dittes, bien plutôt que de gestes déplorés et des propos incosiéerés") and leading to observations on a piece of turquoise jewellery and the merits of ties, referring to a kind gesture ("qui me touche avant tout et charme plus encore"), discussing the "singulier symbolisme" of a 'mysterious object' in conjunction with the 13th of the month and Saturn; in the letter to Mitzi he begins "Qu'aurait dit la graphologie, de les belles oriflammes qui accompagnent vos paroles écrites" and again thanks her for some act of generosity; together with an autograph postcard sent from Engadine, Switzerland (dated March 1909), two cryptic initialled autograph notes, and three autograph visiting cards, the letters 12 pages in total, on Montesquiou's notepaper with winged bat motif (one embossed in silver), with envelope inscribed by Mitzi "Lettres de Robert de Montesquiou à Eugène et à moi", 8vo and oblong 4to, "Neuilly" or "Pavillon des Muses", December 1908-1909
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