From the notes of Dr. Catherine Perry: Noailles thanks Jane Catulle-Mendès for the beautiful flowers the latter sent to Noailles right after her visit to Noailles the day before. Transcription: "I thank you for what you said to me yesterday; without you, I wouldn't know anything, and now we are filled with knowledge, gravity and equity. I owe this to you. But that you should have such a gentle reason [in addition to] so much poetry! Believe in all my admiration."