From the notes of Dr. Catherine Perry: This letter was included in a copy of Noailles' book Les Éblouissements (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1907) that has an inscription by her to Frédéric Charpin. In this letter, Noailles writes to Charpin, who apparently was the director of a museum in Arles, as a link for her to the southern French poet Mistral. In her letters she waxes patriotic for eastern France, comparing the German-occupied territories to the sunny and hopeful regions of southern France. To Charpin in particular, she defends herself from writing "snobbish" poetry.