Original photograph of Paul Verlaine by Otto Wegener
[Paris, 1893], cabinet format (10,8 x 16,8 cm)
Famous portrait of the poet in preparation of his candidacy for the Académie Française
Name card with autograph additions to a “dear friend”
Janv[ier] 1904, 1 p. in-24 in purple ink
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Reynaldo Hahn
N.p.n.d « Monday » [7th January 1907], 8 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« If you write to Montesquiou, tell him that the truth is out of his dilemma, in full improbability for those who do not know my life… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
[Paris], « 9 Bd Malesherbes » [27th May 1895], 1 p. in-12° on ‘petit bleu’
« Tomorrow some of my worst verses will be heard »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
N.p, [December 7, 1904], 4 pp. in-8°, mourning paper
« The truly unsightly land is not that which art has not sown, but that which, covered with masterpieces, knows neither how to love them nor even how to preserve them »
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