ALS, 1930 April 27 : Washington, D.C., to S.J. Woolf.

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ALS, 1930 April 27 : Washington, D.C., to S.J. Woolf.

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Written on letterhead as the Ambassador of France to Washington, D.C., Claudel thanks Mr. Woolf for the very life like portrait, refers to "the young French Mexican painter Jean Charlot, "and asks for confidence in the matter of his reflections about war, earlier told to Mr. Woolf.

1 3/4 p. ; 17 x 15 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Woolf, S. J. (Samuel Johnson), 1880-1948

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