[Louis-Arsène Delaunay, French actor with the Comédie Française.] Autograph Letter Signed, in French, to Tom Taylor, playwright and editor of Punch, in enveloped addressed by him to 'Sir Tom Taylor'.

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Taylor's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, and folded once. In worn envelope with Penny Red stamp and postmark, and slight loss around flap. The envelope was no doubt retained because it was addressed by Delaunay to 'Sir Tom Taylor / Lavender Sweet [sic] / Wandsworth'. A neatly laid written and laid out communication, addressed to ‘Cher Monsieur Taylor’ and signed ‘Yours truly / L Delaunay / de la Comedie française’. He regrets that he and his wife cannot accept Taylor’s ‘très cordiale invitation’, as they accepted a similar one ten days before from ‘Mr. & Mrs William Spottiswode’ [sic]. He concludes with the thought that it would have been ‘bien agréable de faire plus ample connaissance avec un homme d’un esprit aussi fin et aussi distingué’.