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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Declining to attend a salon. 1913
Autograph letter signed ('Iv. Bunin') to Maria Valentinovna [Watson], Moscow, 19 November 1913.

In Russian. One page, approx. 95 x 125mm, on a letter-card.

Declining to attend a salon. Bunin politely refuses an invitation to attend a salon at Maria Watson’s house as he is not feeling well.

Maria Valentinovna Watson (1848-1932) was a poet and translator.

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