Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921). L.A.S., [Paris] October 14, 1921, to Mme Sterns at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée; 1 page in-4 in his cipher, envelope. One of Saint-Saëns's last letters, two months before his death [December 16, 1921 in Algiers]. The years have flown by since I had the honor of visiting you in New York! I am now 86 years old and I no longer dine away from home. He would like to visit him, but I'm busy at the moment rehearsing my opera Ascanio, which will soon be revived at the Académie nationale de musique ...