MONET Claude (1840-1926) Signed autograph letter addressed to his wife, Alice HOSCHEDÉ London, Tuesday 13 [1900], 4 pages in-12 in ink on letterhead from "Savoy Hotel, Embankment Gardens, London". "In haste my good darling, after waiting too long I work and run fast to the hospital. This morning in a fog that I couldn't see a thing. ..." "... because there are 50 francs of customs duty to pay, which Butler probably refused to pay ... not knowing the contents, (I think it's the package of the wild man's suit) ...".