ROMANIA. ÉLISABETH (1843-1916) Queen of Romania, author under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva. L.A.S. "Elisabeth", Sinaia July 24, 1907; 4pages oblong in-8 in violet ink on gray paper with her name engraved in relief. She merely leafed through her correspondent's volume, and "found things that pleased me! As I have sung the Rhine in so many ways, it seems to me that it belongs to me more! I'm a bit like my father's sister, when she arrived in her travel sedan and saw the Rhine, she'd get out and stroke it with her little aristocratic hand! It's only affection that makes us landlords!"... She goes on to evoke Cologne Cathedral and her ancestor Hermann de Wied: "He was a friend of Luther and Melanchthon, but he was also archbishop and wanted to introduce the Reformation! If he had succeeded, Protestantism and the Thirty Years' War would have been avoided! [...] The Rhine is so full of memories that you become a poet without wanting to!