Henri DUPARC (1848-1933). L.A.S., November 23, 1900, [to Rhené-Baton?]; 2 pages in-8. About a melody on Baudelaire's poem La Mort des amants (besides Debussy in 1890, the poem was set to music by Rhené-Baton in 1900, Gustave Charpentier in 1895, Gaston Serpette around 1897). "You are very kind to have remembered the good promise you made me to give me your charming Mort des Amants [...] I have just reread these few pages, which I thought I knew very little about, because I was terribly tired the day you played them to me, and I had the pleasure of recognizing every note, every accent. That is to say how much I was struck by it: the return of time after the eventful passage is perhaps what I like best: it is really very penetrating. If you allow me, I will call your attention, when I have the pleasure to see you, on some small defects of prosody: now that one gives (and one is well right) a so great importance to the declamation in the music, and that one never sacrifices to it the prosody, it is necessary to tend so that this one is absolutely perfect "...