Comedy

Louis-Arsène Delaunay French actor with the Comédie Française. Autograph Letter Signed in French to Tom Taylor playwright and editor of Punch in enveloped addressed by him to 'Sir Tom Taylor'.

ref. 25994 — 'London July 4 1879 / Upper Montagu st. W'. See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica and Taylor's in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged and folded once. In worn envelope with Penny Red stamp and postmark and slight loss around flap. The envelope was no doubt retained because it was addressed by Delaunay to 'Sir Tom Taylor / Lavender Sweet sic / Wandsworth'. A neatly laid written and laid out communication addressed to ‘Cher Monsieur Taylor’ and signed ‘Yours truly / L Delaunay / de la Comedie française’. He regrets that he and his wife cannot accept Taylor’s ‘très cordiale invitation’ as they accepted a similar one ten days before from ‘Mr. & Mrs William Spottiswode’ sic. He concludes with the thought that it would have been ‘bien agréable de faire plus ample connaissance avec un homme d’un esprit aussi fin et aussi distingué’. 'London July 4 1879 / Upper Montagu st. W'. unknown