Massenet, Jules. (1842–1912) "During these emotional days for you your old friend will be far away" - Autograph Letter Signed following the Dreyfus ConvictionIntriguing autograph letter signed from the important French operatic composer, dated exactly one week after the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus. 3 pp., October 22, 1894, addressed to a "Dear good friend." Translated from the French, "The hazards of life and the hard necessity to obey it means that during these emotional days for you your old friend will be far away, in the cold, in the worries, in Brussels though I am unwell I will have to leave Paris