BIB_ID
406049
Accession number
MA 8615.7
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Display Date
1943 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
1 item (1 p., with enclosure and envelope); 19.9 x 15.7 cm
Notes
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
On blue stationery.
On blue stationery.
Provenance
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Summary
The note reads: "Pour Joseph Cornell / En très sympathique souvenir / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" (in his hand) and, in Consuelo's hand: "Et moi : / Consuelo / parceque je n'ai rien / fait de ma vie, que / rever comme vous / cher Cornell, au merveilles. / 4 February 1943." On verso, Cornell has typed: "autographs of Consuelo and Antoine de St.-Exupéry."
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