Cécile de WENTWORTH (born Celilia E. Slith, 1853–1933, Ameri - Lot 25

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Cécile de WENTWORTH (born Celilia E. Slith, 1853–1933, Ameri - Lot 25
Cécile de WENTWORTH (born Celilia E. Slith, 1853–1933, American painter, student of Cabanel and Detaille) / Signed autograph correspondence consisting of 3 letters; 2 are on letterhead bearing her crowned monogram (she was a Marquise of the Holy See) and her Paris address on Avenue des Champs-Élysées (2 and 3 pages, in-8 format) and 1 pneumatic letter (1 page, large in-12 format, plus an address page with postage), Dated around 1910, she writes to Jules Méline (politician) and his wife to request invitations to the Élysée Palace: On April 12, 1910, “My husband arrives in Paris on the 21st; I see that President Fallières is hosting a dinner in his honor; If there is a reception after dinner, would it be too forward of me to ask for an invitation for my husband, who is in Paris, and for myself? We are old friends of Roosevelt’s, and I painted his portrait at the White House in Washington, as you know.” - It would seem that protocol issues are complicating the situation; in a second letter, she explains that she usually received invitations to the Élysée Palace through the U.S. Embassy, She notes that her grandmother was French, that her husband is the Pope’s private chamberlain, etc.
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