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recommend sea air for me, and I have in mind precisely a small place on the French Riviera. You would render me a great service by telling about ‘Cavaliere.’ That name attracts me. Would you advise me to go there?” Small quarto (211 × 162 mm), single sheet of pale blue writing paper, handwritten in ink across both sides. In French. Neatly annotated in pencil in top left corner of first page, “R. M. Rilke, une de ses toutes dernières
lettres!”, with the date “+29. XII. 1926” pencilled below the inked date. In fine condition. ¶ Published in Klaus W. Jonas & D. L. Ashliman (trans.), “The Correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Thun- Hohenstein”, Books Abroad , vol. 47, no. 2 (Spring 1973), pp. 272–89, which also includes a more detailed biography of Thun. £9,750 [132323]
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