Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956)

TRANSCRIPTION

Paris le 29 mai 1932

Cher monsieur et ami,
Je reçois ces coupures et pense qu’elles
pourront peut-être vous servir.

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TRANSLATION

Paris, May 29 1932¹

Dear Sir and Friend²,
I am in receipt of these clippings, and think they
might be of some use to you.

 Gustave Charpentier

NOTES:

1) May 29, 1932 was a Sunday. [N.B. In an article by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover published in The Musical Quarterly (July, 1939) p.348, seven years after this note was written, says: "He [Charpentier] lives quietly in the same small apartment on the Boulevard Rochechouart, in he shadow of his beloved Sacré Coeur, that he has occupied for the last forty years."

2) Recipient's name is undetermined.

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