From the notes of Dr. Catherine Perry: A familiar letter to the comte Marcel de Germiny, who was evidently a good friend. Noailles writes: "Can you come for dinner Tuesday at 8:15 pm, just as you are (unless at this time you are taking a bath!). There will be, I hope (but does one still dare hope) Rostand [Edmond Rostand, the playwright], Mme de Polignac [the princess, born Winaretta Singer of the Singer sewing machines, who brought her fortune to a prince, receiving his title in return], l'abbé Mugnier [a famous priest who confessed many of the upper-class French people of his time and who wrote a very interesting memoir]. Your old friend, Anna de Noailles."