Stéphane MALLARMÉ. L.A.S. "Stéphane Mallarmé", Paris January [1898], to the brothers J.-H. ROSNY; 2pages oblong in-12 on card. Thanks for sending the novel Une rupture, published by the two brothers with Plon. "My dear and admired friends I don't want a handshake with one of you, on the subject of Une Rupture, to deprive me of telling you of my particular liking for this book, one of your very fine ones; I should have done so so long ago. These works on a detached case or seen from one side of passion, which you isolate to show it in its special rhythm, as well as a motif, considered separately, in the enormous symphony that is the Novel, inaugurate a series entirely your own; where the poet, which first of all you are, more purely imprints a significant direction. And so it is with this far-off ending to a separation, then returning to it to cry out almost death with a horrible neutrality of tone, unknown in any reading. Thank you for this beauty; yours always." Correspondance (Austin), t.X, p.79-80. - Correspondence (Marchal), no. 3197.