# - Satie, Erik.

to the dancer Élisabeth Toulemon ("Caryathis"),  apologising for being unable to attend a rehearsal at the ''Olympia'' music hall, explaining that his score was not ready and that it had been necessary to return the theatrical machinery (''...Le chef d'orchestre est très gentil...mais il ne peut pas diriger s'il n'y a pas de matériel...''), 2 pages, 16mo (c.11 x 7cms), on a blue carte pneumatique, integral autograph address-panel, Arcueil-Cachan, 6 January 1922, some creasing and browning;  Photographic proof copy of ''Sports et Divertissements'', annotated by the composer, 22 pages, large oblong folio (38 x 32cms), no place, 1914, 'Préface' repaired by adhesive tape, some tearing, otherwise in good condition; Relâche. Ballet instantanéist en deux actes, en entr'acte cinématographique...Scénario et décors de Francis Picabia Cinématographie de René Clair, Paris: Rouart, Lerolle, [1926], [4], 45 pages, folio, colour frontispiece by Picabia, publisher's wrapper printed in brown on grey, tear to cover

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