[Manuscript statement about First World War] Page extracted from a Birthday Book. In French., signed "Jean Delville".

One page, 4to, good condition, extracted from a Birthday Book with bookplate of N. Hardy Wallis, author. Delville discusses intially the call up of his son, Elie, to fight "les hordes barbares du Kaiser, le plus fou et le plus cruel des Allemandes, le plus sot et le plus bete des Empereurs", hoping that his son will one day retrurn to visit the "famille Wallis" having done his duty fighting for "son pays et gtande Angleterre". This staement is dated 13 Decembre 1914. He has added another staement in red ink and closely-written (for lack of space). He and his family are about to return to "Belgique lib