Illustrated Typed Letter, Signed, to Elizabeth Weicker Carissima
$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
8vo. One leaf Town & Country stationery, text and illustration on verso; illustration at bottom in black and yellow marker; date and signature in black marker. Item #376166 In a missive to his dear friend, the American socialite and philanthropist Elizabeth Liz Weicker, Bemelmans humorously and somewhat bawdily asks if he could stay at her Paris apartment — nicknamed le ciel — during an upcoming trip to France:
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