POULENC FRANCIS Autograph Note Signed Poulenc to Mon cher Pa

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POULENC, FRANCIS. Autograph Note Signed, "Poulenc," to "Mon cher Paul [Éluard?]," in French, conveying Pierre Bernac's desire that he publish new poems soon, written vertically on the correspondence side of a postcard lacking address and postal markings. On the verso is the image of an artwork inside the Autun Cathedral with the holograph inscription: "If you only knew how beautiful it is." 1 page, 16mo; matted with a portrait in a double-sided frame. Np, [1938?]

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"I am spending a marvelous month's vacation in a lost corner of the world with Pierre Bernac. He would like you to publish some new poems soon because he claims . . . that then I shall be tempted again. I think of and rely on you this autumn while in Touraine."