Cécile de WENTWORTH(née Celilia E. Slith, 1853-1933,American - Lot 440

Cécile de WENTWORTH(née Celilia E. Slith, 1853-1933,American painter, pupil of Cabanel and Detaille)/ Autograph signed correspondence of 3 letters, 2 are headed by her crowned cipher (she was a marquise of the Holy See) and her Paris addressAvenue des Champs-Elysées(2 and 3 p in-8) and 1 letter-pneumatic (1 p large in-12 plus address page with postage), Years 1910, she addressesJules Méline(politician) and his wife, to obtain invitations to the Elysée :April 12, 1910: "My President is arriving in Paris on the 21st; I see that President Fallières is giving a dinner in his honor; If there is a reception after dinner, am I being too indiscreet if I ask for an invitation for my husband who is in Paris and me;We are old friends of Rooseveltand I have painted his portrait in the White House in Washington, as you know" - It would seem that protocol problems are complicating the situation, and in a second letter she specifies that she usually received invitations to the Elysée from the American Embassy, that her grandmother is French, that her husband is the Pope's Secret Cameramanetc.