COLETTE asks her friend for a publication on cats. 1948.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette , known as COLETTE (1873.1954)

Autograph letter signed to her friend Twinka.

Three pages in-8° on paper with gold embroidered patterns, decorated with a collage.

[Paris. March 30, 1948 (according to a pencil note)]

“Obviously you and I like unclothed cats better. »

Colette asks her friend for a publication on cats.

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“Dear Twinka, whose friendship is as faithful as memory, and who succeeds in making me see Easter in pink, here I am horizontal, – if I dare to write. Yesterday I went eleven kilometers from Paris. Distance leading to a goat path... I wanted to overcome him to enter a wooden cabin where my two “nieces” Paulette Gauthier-Villars and Marthe Lamy were having a bite to eat, as happy as if they were twelve years old. I am paying today in various pains for my crazy attempt... I will not repeat it. My handwriting is ugly because I can't find a convenient position.

Dearest Twinka, what do you think of Princess Mickey's expressions? Vava will have already explained to you that I expect from you a real collaboration in images, for an album requested by a Swiss publisher. Obviously, you and I like unclothed cats better. But no one understands the cat figure as well as you. And if chance brings before your eyes, in an illustrious foreigner, some Prince Cat, I know that you will send me the cutting. THANKS.

Are you still coughing? The whooping fits won't let me go at night. Do you think you'll ever be able to climb my nasty staircase? Dearest Twinka, I embrace you with much tender friendship, and Maurice is respectfully and affectionately yours. Colette. »

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