The noted French composer writes that a virus has prevented her from corresponding sooner and thanks the recipient for her bel article -- the photos were nice and the ensemble was a success. She is leaving for Marseilles, but as soon as she is back she will write again to invite her for a day to chat at length.

Chaminade signs with her married name, Carbonel Chaminade, which indicates that this could not have been written before 1901, the year she wed French music publisher Louis-Mathieu Carbonel. Their marriage was largely suspected to be one of convenience, as he was decades older and she insisted they live separately.

Cécile Chaminade was the first female composer to be honored with the Legion of Honor. She was born into a wealthy musical family and although her father did not approve of a woman becoming a professional musician, she nevertheless received early training and wrote little compositions for her cats, dogs, and dolls. After giving a salon performance of her works in 1878, she would thereafter only perform her own music, which became quite popular in France and England. Queen Victoria was known to so enjoy her works that Chaminade's Prélude for Organ, op. 78 was played at her funeral.

Fellow French composer Ambroise Thomas once remarked of Chaminade, this is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman.