Sidonie Gabrielle Colette , known as COLETTE (1873.1954)
Autograph letter signed to her friend Twinka.
Two and a half pages in-8° on paper with embroidered patterns.
Charming collage of a bouquet of flowers at the top of a letter.
[Paris. March 8, 1945 (according to a note in pencil)]
"I just learned that you have such a bad and troublesome cold! [The following appears to be unrelated and possibly a separate comment: "Ba delicatess daturelle e ubiquitously adapts to circumstances."]
Colette's hilarious letter, amused with delight by her friend's "cold".
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"My dearest Twinka, I just learned that you have such a bad and painful cold! My delicate nature adapts itself immediately to circumstances, and I hasten to write to you as soon as you speak. I was at the dentist, and I was hiding it all the more jealously because I had lost a porcelain chip embedded in an incisor! Not only lost, but swallowed!! I've been fixed since last night, but I wish you were cured. Baurice, the perfect husband, arranged to have a dental job while I was at it."
Dear Twinka, take care of yourself, use all the warmth of your kiss for yourself alone. I still love you, I'm waiting for spring, and Pauline just told me that there are more planes than there will be for eight days of heating… I kiss you with all my heart, and Baurice is at your feet. Your Colette.
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