Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris, February 1892], to [Jules] Bois, 1892, February.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris, February 1892], to [Jules] Bois, 1892, February.

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Saying that he does not have the necessary confidence [in the enterprise] to compose the music for [Bois's one-act drama] Les noces de Satan, that the orchestra seems to Debussy not to exist except "sur un petit morceau de papier," mentioning M. Burger, etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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