SAINT SAÃNS CAMILLE Autograph Letter Signed CSaint Saëns to

SAINT-SAËNS, CAMILLE. Autograph Letter Signed, "CSaint-Saëns," to an unnamed violinist, in French, expressing worry that violinist Mr. Cuvillon may not perform tonight, desperately pleading for recipient to come tonight in case Cuvillon cannot, threatening to plunge a dagger into his own breast if he has no first violin, promising that recipient would share first violin if Cuvillon does come, and noting that he has had a visit from "the incomparable Hector [Berlioz?]." 2 pages, 8vo, pale blue paper, with integral blank; moderate fading to second page of text and signature, faint scattered foxing, horizontal folds. Np, "Monday afternoon" [1894?]