5 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed, 1 typed letter signed, and 1 autograph letter.

Escholier, Raymond, French journalist, novelist, and curator (1882-1971).

Verlag: Mirepoix and Paris, 1943-1967.

Beschreibung

Various formats.Together 11½ pp. Together with two autograph envelopes. All except one letter are part of Escholier's correspondence with the publisher Maurice Delamain of Librairie Stock and his second wife Micheline, several of which concern his friend, the poet Marie Noël, who published with Stock. - In the earliest piece, a postcard dated 8 February 1943, Escholier thanks Delamain for sending him Noël's 1922 anthology "Les Chansons et les Heures" and asks for two more publications, as he was preparing two write a long article on the poet for the Revue des Deux Mondes. A few months later, on 7 June 1943, Escholier writes to thank Delamain for the requested books and asks to be placed on Stock's list of recipients of reviewer's copies, mentioning his work for several journals as justification. - Soon thereafter, the two men became friends, and Delamain seems to have visited Escholier in Mirepoix, as Escholier congratulates Delamain in a short letter from 26 May 1946 on having ascended the famous Château de Montségur some 30 kilometres south of Mirepoix. He also points to "the case of the Abbé Baurès", referring to the priest Raphaël Baurès from Foix who was sentenced to death in 1944 for collaboration and the use of torture. - A letter of condolences for Maurice Delamain's sister-in-law, the translator Germaine Delamain, can be dated to 1956. - The typed letter from 26 May 1961 again concerns Marie Noël in a professional context, following the sale of Stock to Hachette that year and a potential change of publisher for Noël. - Two letters to Micheline Delamain from 1960 and 1967 are of private character. The final letter in the collection with New Year's wishes for 1960 was addressed the French diplomat Maurice Garreau-Dombasle and his wife, the famous translator and writer Man'ha Garreau-Dombasle. Escholier quotes Man'ha with a text inspired by the famous tapestry "The Lady and the Unicorn": "La dame à la licorne avait un petit chien - Qu'il trouve sa place aux pieds de la Dame et la licorne ressuscitée". - Minimal browning. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 58658

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Titel: 5 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph ...

Verlag: Mirepoix and Paris, 1943-1967.

Einband: Softcover