SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed (fair copy) of the poem "Faint Love," one page, large 4to, 12 lines, written in ink, signed and dated "May 23: [9?]9" at end; Autograph manuscript signed of the poem (fair copy) "Yvette: her wonder" [to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's famous model Yvette Gilbert], one page, 4to, 12 lines, written in ink, remnants of tape at corners, signed and dated "June 6: 1909" at end; Autograph letter signed to Yvette Gilbert, [London], 9 June 1892, 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank leaf (remnants of tape at corners of one side), in French, regarding a piece he had written about her in the St. James's Gazette; Typed letter signed to Yvette Gilbert, Wittersham, Kent, 4 August 1927, one page, 4to, remnants of tape at corners, proposing to translate her book La Chanson de Ma Vie (Mes Memoires) and mentioning some of his own books: "...Votre impression de Toulouse-Lautrec est tout a fait magnifique. I have never read anything more exciting than this narrative of your adventures and famous existence. These pages thrill me with the sense of your strange personality, and always with the veritable accent of your sinister and macabre genius..." (Schimmel) (4)

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SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed (fair copy) of the poem "Faint Love," one page, large 4to, 12 lines, written in ink, signed and dated "May 23: [9?]9" at end; Autograph manuscript signed of the poem (fair copy) "Yvette: her wonder" [to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's famous model Yvette Gilbert], one page, 4to, 12 lines, written in ink, remnants of tape at corners, signed and dated "June 6: 1909" at end; Autograph letter signed to Yvette Gilbert, [London], 9 June 1892, 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank leaf (remnants of tape at corners of one side), in French, regarding a piece he had written about her in the St. James's Gazette; Typed letter signed to Yvette Gilbert, Wittersham, Kent, 4 August 1927, one page, 4to, remnants of tape at corners, proposing to translate her book La Chanson de Ma Vie (Mes Memoires) and mentioning some of his own books: "...Votre impression de Toulouse-Lautrec est tout a fait magnifique. I have never read anything more exciting than this narrative of your adventures and famous existence. These pages thrill me with the sense of your strange personality, and always with the veritable accent of your sinister and macabre genius..." (Schimmel) (4)