A small note relaying that the dinner in question has been put off until next Sunday so that it doesn't trouble the quietude of your nights. I will see in the meantime "l'homme considérable" and take it up with him. Until Wednesday and always your Claude.

The recipient of this letter, author René Peter, was a close friend of Debussy's, publishing a biography of the French composer in 1933 that was subsequently expanded in 1944. The pair shared a mutual love for the theater and worked together in 1898 on a dramatic satire entitled Frères en art. It was the first of seven plays they would co-author.