BIB_ID
405874
Accession number
MA 9073
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Display Date
1904 September 7.
Credit line
Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.9 x 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed as "Père Ubu."
Written on the stationery of the "Grand Café / Brosse Fils / Grand-Lemps / (Isère)."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks, printed with a return address of "Grand Café - BROSSE FILS - Grand-Lamps - Isère" and addressed to "Madame / Alfred Vallette / aux Bois-Vignons / Essonnes / Seine et Oise."
The reference to the "tripode" is to a small cabin that Jarry would build on land near the Vallette property in Corbeil and which he called "Le Tripode" and Le Barrage is his small studio near to a tavern of the same name and to the dam at Coudray.
Rachilde was the pen name of Marguerite Eymery Vallette, a French symbolist novelist and playwright and wife of Alfred Vallette, founder and editor of "Mercure de France," a French literary magazine.
Written on the stationery of the "Grand Café / Brosse Fils / Grand-Lemps / (Isère)."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks, printed with a return address of "Grand Café - BROSSE FILS - Grand-Lamps - Isère" and addressed to "Madame / Alfred Vallette / aux Bois-Vignons / Essonnes / Seine et Oise."
The reference to the "tripode" is to a small cabin that Jarry would build on land near the Vallette property in Corbeil and which he called "Le Tripode" and Le Barrage is his small studio near to a tavern of the same name and to the dam at Coudray.
Rachilde was the pen name of Marguerite Eymery Vallette, a French symbolist novelist and playwright and wife of Alfred Vallette, founder and editor of "Mercure de France," a French literary magazine.
Provenance
Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman from the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection, 2017.
Summary
Relating his travel plans as he leaves Grand-Lemps for Paris and then to Corbeil; describing a large fish platter he purchased from "le grande poterie de Chirin près le Grand-Lamps," his plan to take the overnight train to Paris and arrive at rue Cassette by 10:25 in the morning and then to be reunited with "le petit arbre et le futur tripode" and at Le Barrage by the afternoon; referring to his work on Le Pantagruel, his having learned to play bezique and the fact that he's lost weight.
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