Saix, (Léon) Guillot de, French writer (1885-1964). Autograph letter signed.

€ 220.00

To a colleague, thanking for the pleasure of a poem which respects the sacred tradition of rhythm and logic, about an equally enjoyable communication from the composer Henry Février, about further work on the last of bars of Jules Massenet, which Saix owns, and about a publication of "L'Étoile de Sévilla" (Balfe) in "Le Ménestrel": "On a toujours plaisir à lire de beaux vers, des vers qui respectent la sainte tradition, en ette époque où tant d'ecrivaillons se mêlent de publier des poème amorphes, sans rythme ni raison! Aussi ai-je eu de la joie à lire ce Double Trésor que m'a communiqué mon ami Henry Février. Je voudrais bien vous voir un jour à propos des derniers mesures que je possède de Massenet [...]".

Saix wrote librettos for Jules Massenet who, in turn, was Henry Février's teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. "Le Ménestrel" (The Minstrel), an influential French weekly music journal, had been acquired by the music publishers Heugel seven years after its founding by Joseph-Hippolyte l'Henry in 1833; it remained with Heugel until the journal's discontinuation at the beginning of World War II.

One corner slightly foxed.