Blaise Cendrars, écrivain suisse naturalisé français - Lettre autographe signée au marquis Pierre d'Arcangues, évoquant Madame Errazuriz - 1925

Autograph letter signed by Blaise Cendrars, Swiss-born writer naturalized French. The letter is undated (only the word “Thursday” appears); it likely dates from the 1920s, a period when Cendrars was regularly received by Madame Errazuriz in Biarritz.

Written in black ink, on a sheet of laid paper.

In this letter, presumably addressed to Marquis Pierre d'Arcangues, poet and novelist from Biarritz, contemporary of Cendrars and organizer in the 1920s of Biarritz’s fêtes and receptions, Blaise Cendrars conveys, on behalf of Madame Errazuriz, a Chilean patron who hosted him at her Biarritz property alongside Picasso and Stravinsky, his regret at being unable to accept an invitation, the latter never taking place in the evening. He then mentions his own excessive workload, describing himself as “condemned to hard labor” by a bulky work to be finished before the end of the month, leaving him with not a moment of respite.

- Dimensions: 20.7 x 26.6 cm
- Condition: Fair, irregular and frayed edges, mailing folds, scattered foxing. See photos for more details.
- Number of pages: 1 page

- Frédéric Louis Sauser, known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss and French writer, born September 1, 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and died January 21, 1961 in Paris. Wikipedia

Carefully packed in a rigid and watertight carton.