?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROPS. FÉLICIEN. Autograph Letter Signed, twice, "Fély" and "F," to a collector or dealer ("My old friend"), in French, requesting that he arrange a sale and to lend him drawings in order to have prints made of them, with a small ink drawing. The drawing, sketch showing a lake side where a rowboat is moored to a tree while a bird glides over the calm lake surface. 2½ pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; short closed separations at folds, horizontal fold. Np, nd
". . . I have a collection of 70 pieces that I would let [author Emile?] Hennequin have for 500 francs, if he were interested. Try to arrange it." The postscript: "Too bad 'we don't have' a yearly income of two hundred and ninety-eight thousand francs! Sad fate! . . . "I'll come by your house on Tuesday to get: "1. Some old drawings of mine dedicated to you; Id like to borrow them to make engravings of them "2. Your book of verses; I have an idea." The post-postscript: "And for a whole month we won't talk about literature. Anything: banking, history, philosophy, hygiene, botany, . . . but not literature! You have to learn to think like a clog maker."
