TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Lot n° 44

L.A.S. of youth, addressed to his grandmother. S.l.n.d. "April 17". 4 pp. in-8. Blue paper. "I have come to talk with you a little today. I am thinking a lot about Adèle who is becoming Madame, and I confess that it seems to me very extraordinary. It's very funny, isn't it, to have a new cousin who wasn't a cousin at eight o'clock and who is a cousin at noon. I wish I were next to my Uncle Charles to prevent him from having truffle indigestion !!!!!!! [...] ". For the past four days, Lautrec has been feeling better but has not yet resumed his outing habits "and mother has not yet decided anything". He gives news of his family, his father, Odette, Aunt Josephine, Adèle, his uncle abbot, etc. and adds "I founded a theater with Louis Pascal, with 60 actors. It amuses us a lot. My serine de Béarn is incubating 3 eggs that promise us a family increase [...]", etc.