AMERICAN PAINTING - Cécile de WENTWORTH(née Celilia E. Slith - Lot 544

AMERICAN PAINTING - 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 with her crowned cipher (she was marquise of the Holy See) and her Paris address Avenue 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 addresses Jules Méline (politician) and his wife, in order 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 had his portrait done at the White House in Washington, as you know" - It would seem that problems of protocol are complicating the situation, and in a second letter she states 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 Cameraman, etc., etc.