Approximately forty-six autograph manuscripts and documents - Lot 136

Approximately forty-six autograph manuscripts and documents concerning writers and their relatives (20th century). 1/ Anatole France. Photographic portrait, [cliché Manuel, ca. 1920]. 180 x 130 mm. "Anatole France et Le Lys rouge". Typescript of an article by Pierre Descaves for Extinctor. Pages de France. 4 pp. in folio. 2/ André Theuriet. Autograph postcard signed. 3/ Jacques Richepin. L.A.S. on Hôtel Scribe letterhead. 2 pp. in-8, s.d. about a contract concerning Xantho. The composer's publisher, Lattès, does not want to relinquish his rights. 4/ Paul Fort. L.A.S. to Paul-Boncourt. June 18, 1915. 2 pp. in-8. Could he send him a list, even a short one "I know very well that lovers of poetry, even patriotic poetry, are rare", of people to whom he could send his Bulletin de guerre. 5/ André Rouveyre. 3 L.A.S. to Pierre Borel, 1939-1941. 4 pp. 1/2 in-8. About his work and publishing projects. Interesting note: "no doubt you know that I bought the portrait of Marie [Bashkirtseff] (the one reproduced on the cover of Moussia) and he intends to make observations on the said portrait. 6/ Jean Aicard. L.A.S. to Mme de Villeneuve (envelope). 1 p. in 12. 7/ Raymond Escholier. 2 L.A.S. to a "dear Master" 1910. 2 pp. in-8. 1 postcard, January 10, 1952. Evokes Pierre Loti, "the adoration of my youth". "It is Victor Hugo who attracts me to Nice". L.A.S. to Mme Andrée Martignon (envelope), September 15, 1946. 2 p. in-8. He tells her about his itinerant life. Is pleased that she has won the Fabien Artigue prize "as I had hoped". 8/ Henry Bordeaux. 8 autograph visiting cards (both sides), 1960. 9/ Henri Pourrat. L.S., September 28, 1941. 1 p. in-4. About the difficulty for him to have his picture taken in Ambert. He is writing a Sully. On rotting, which is no longer used for paper. L.A.S. February 11, 1945. 1 p. in 8°. Beautiful letter of condolence. 10/ Louis Gastine. 2 L.A.S. on La Photographie française letterhead, 1902-1903 to his brother. 7 pp. in-8, faded ink. 4 LAS from his mother. 1904-1905. 5 pp. in-8. 11/ Paul Hervieu. L.A.S. April 9, 1894. 1 p. in-8. Thanks for "the colors in which you kindly painted me in your gallery." 12/ Henri Bataille. L.A.S. 1/2 p. in-4. L'Amazone will appear in l'Illustration in a few weeks. 13/ Louis Bertrand. 2 L.A.S. on paper to his address in Antibes. 2 pp. in-4. Solicits and thanks him for additional supplies. 14/ Pol Neveux. Autograph postcard signed to a "dear baron". March 7, 1919. 15/ René Milan [Maurice Larrouy]. 2 L.S., 2 pp. in-4, and 1 autograph postcard signed to Pierre Borel. 1933-1936. 16/ Françoise d'Eaubonne. Letter-poem on oblong in folio paper with small drawings. "Voltaire était un scorpion venimeux" "Je ne crois pas à l'éternel féminin". 17/ Claude Farrère. L.A.S., 2 pp. in-8 in pencil on letterhead of Restaurant Morateur in Lyon: "Mademoiselle. Your father has the Lyon prize. But I want to tell you that it's thanks to M. Léon Daudet more than to me...". 18/ Raymond Cox. 2 L.A.S. on letterhead of the Musée historique des Tissus. 1918. 2 pp. in-8. 19/ Henri de Rothschild. Autograph visiting card signed. 20/ Paul-André Lesort. Long mailing to André Gide, on the verso of the justification for his novel "Les Reins et les Cœurs" and covering the entire page. 21/ Louis Aragon. Dispatch cut out on the false title of Beaux Quartiers, tears. 22/ 3 autograph letters signed by Arnold Reymond on the cover of "L'Histoire des sciences et la Philosophie des sciences"; Arthur Massé; Gérard Stevens on the title page of La Parole est à la défense.