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Porter, Cole TYPED LETTER SIGNED ("COLE PORTER") TO MADELINE SMITH, WITH SIX LINES OF AUTOGRAPH ADDITIONS, TOGETHER WITH SIX COPIES OF LETTERS BY PORTER, in which Porter gives Mrs Smith various instructions for attending to his affairs in New York, including providing Mr Bray with funds for a round trip from Greece to California, encloses a letter from a former valet and adds an autograph postscript ("Paul is suddenly laid up with an infected foot. This delays our departure for Rome."), 2 pages, 8vo (c.18 x 13cm), printed stationery of Hotel Ritz, Paris, 23 April 1955, splitting at fold, edges lightly browned, together with copies of six typed letters with secretarial signatures, one to Porter about the request by La Vieille Russie to borrow an icon, with his reply, and Porter's letters about Heath's Standard French and English Dictionary, Christmas boxes and presents, news-clippings, exchanging news of friends, 6 pages, some with shorthand notes by Smith in pencil