Autograph letter signed "Claude" [Debussy] to Pierre Louys, describing the "14th quartet" of Beethoven as a long practical joke, despite what young savants say about it in L'art et la Vie, and expressing the wish not to be wearied any more with old stuff that doesn't even have any period charm ..., 2 p., octavo, autograph envelope ("Monsieur Pierre Louys"), [Paris], Feb. 1895.