104 - Romain ROLLAND (1866–1944)

Romain ROLLAND (1866–1944) Letter, June 24 [1895, to Édouard DUJARDIN]; 3 pages, in-8. He offers him his book “on 17th-century music. [History of Opera Before Lully and Scarlatti], in memory of all the pleasure you once gave me when, as a student at the École Normale, I read your articles in the *Revue Wagnérienne* with such ardent enthusiasm […] I hope you have retained the best of your enthusiasms and your hatreds; for they must have made you very happy, and I was happy for you.” He regrets “not having been able to publish the collection of Italian dramatic music that I compiled in Italy. I will undoubtedly do so later; I could hardly have included it in this work, which was submitted to the Sorbonne as a doctoral dissertation”…