FORT PAUL: (1872-1960) French Poet. A Symbolist who founded literary

FORT PAUL: (1872-1960) French Poet. A Symbolist who founded literary
FORT PAUL: (1872-1960) French Poet. A Symbolist who founded literary reviews with Apollinaire. Best known for his Ballades Françaises. A very good A.L.S., `Paul Fort´, two pages, to two different sheets, 8vo, Paris, 8<sup>th</sup> March 1897, in French. A very cleanly written letter by Fort, in the third person, stating in part `C´est un respectueux ami de votre oeuvre, un poete souffrant de toute son ame pour son art, sincere et ému comme vous le futes toujours devant les hommes, devant les aspects de la Nature, qui sollicite de votre bienveillance d´etre accueilli par vous.´, (“He is a respectful friend of your work, a poet suffering with all his soul for his art, sincere and moved as you are always about  men, about Nature, who is asking for your benevolence to be received by you.”), further expressing his very first emotions reading his correspondent poems, saying `En vous Assurant de son estime, toujours, en vous remerciant des émotions (les premieres qu´il ressentit en poete) que vous lui avez données.. Toute modeste que soit son oeuvre, il espere que vous voudrez bien l´accueillir en ami.´, (“By assuring you of his esteem, always, by thanking you for the emotions (the first ones he felt as a poet) that you have given him…However his work is modest, he hopes you will welcome him as a friend.”) With a Glory Mill Bucks watermark. EX