VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)

VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
Two autograph letters to Émile BALLY.
- Autograph letter signed with a poem, to Émile BALLY, Paris, January 31, 1894, 3 pages in-8 in ink.
In this letter addressed to a Swiss friend is inserted an autograph poem signed entitled Toast.
"But you had spoken French to me
I like you all the better
That you are an old Frenchman
Since you are a Genevan, and I know
That in these places I had a success"
- Autograph letter signed to Émile BALLY in Manchester, Paris June 1894.
4 pages in-8 in ink, envelope preserved, yellowed paper and traces of folds.
"I believe I have already spoken to you about an amateur from Manchester who died some time ago, owner of a large painting by the master Fantin Latour, titled "Coins de table", representing at the dessert around a table furnished with fi ne dishes and flowers, some poets smoking for the most part, life-size busts. I fi gure there in the company of Rimbaud, Valade and
Hervilly....If this gentleman [the fi ls] still exists, if he is still in possession of the painting, if not, who is the current purchaser of this painting?"