Désiré-Émile INGHELBRECHT (1880-1965). 2 L.A.S. ( DEI and Colette-Inghel ),1911-1912, to Steinlen; 4 and 8 pages in-8, one envelope. Beautiful letters from the conductor to his father-in-law at the time of the Ballets Russes. November 9, 1911. He urges Steinlen to intervene with Maurice Couyba [Minister of Commerce, chansonnier under the pseudonym Maurice Boukay] to have him reformed for delicate health; he fears being sent to Morocco; Colette, his wife (Steinlen's daughter), finishes the letter and shows herself even more worried. Vienna February 16, 1912. Having missed their train, because the King [of Italy] unexpectedly came to see The Spectre of the Rose, they have just arrived in Vienna, and Inghel tells at length of their tribulations in finding a hotel and recovering the musical equipment held up at customs; it's cold and they're exhausted. Did you know that in Dresden the musicians had promised to play badly because I was French? My name must have fooled them at first, which explains their affability at the 1st rehearsal. He has to replace Pierre Monteux until the 25th: I'm still going to talk to Diaghilev tomorrow, because this flying camp life can only become more and more onerous if it continues temporarily without offering me the material and moral benefits of Monte-Carlo and Paris...