Accession number
PML 198742.9
Creator
Terrasse, Claude, 1867-1923.
Published
Le Grands-Lemps, Isère, France, 1904 February 18.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 22 cm
Provenance
Tipped into a copy of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1897), formerly owned by Paul Eluard, later in the Collection Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn, acquired at their sale, Pierre Bergé, 18.vi.21, lot 9.
Summary
Addressing her "Chère Madame," Terrasse thanks her for her friendly letter and the pleasure that it gave them, apologizing for not having written sooner, saying that he and Alfred Jarry are horribly subsumed by their "grand machine" (referring to their collaboration on the operetta Pantagruel); that they have one scene to finish, another to finetune, and then they will review everything. They are almost at the end, in sum, and will be able to determine if the "enormous effort" they have made amounts to anything of value. "What a task! good Lord! .. Le Père Ubu had no idea." Explaining that that is why it seemed impossible to be able to create the piece in Paris. Yet he still liberates "the poor recluse" sometimes, who has happily found an element of distraction at the Cafe Brosse, "sufficient to calm or rather satisfy his taste for drinking." Expressing regards to Alfred Vallette, signing off with "the assurance of my respect and my sincere admiration, Claude Terrasse."
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