Guillaume APOLLINAIRE - Autograph letter signed on poetry.

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880.1918)

Autograph letter signed, probably to Pierre Mille.

Two pages in-8° on fine squared paper. No place, May 20, 1914.

Beautiful letter from Apollinaire supporting his poet friend Vincent Muselli.

“My dear master and friend, thank you for sending me your book of verses. I will talk about it in the next Soirées de Paris and I hope to have the opportunity to see you one of these days, as I have been planning to do for almost two years. I take the liberty of recommending to your kindness the book of verses by my friend Vincent Muselli who is applying for the travel grant. I have no doubt that you will take interest in these well-crafted verses, springing from a traditional vein and wonderfully condensed lyricism. Even if they did not attract your attention for the price which they seem worthy to me, I am certain that they would command your esteem. This is ultimately what Muselli aims for above all. But I also know that the prize would be very useful to this boy who is interesting in more than one way, as a poet and as a philosopher. Your admirer Guillaume Apollinaire. »

Les soirs de Paris was a literary magazine co-founded by Apollinaire in 1912, to which he contributed until August 1914 and the start of the First World War.

The poet Vincent Muselli (1879.1956) collaborated with Apollinaire on the magazine Les Marges from 1904 to 1914. His poems appeared in issue 109 of Mercure de France in May-June 1914. The same year his first collection appeared, Les travails et les games.