GIDE, André (1869-1951), seven letters, two to an unidentifi - Lot 73

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GIDE, André (1869-1951), seven letters, two to an unidentifi - Lot 73
GIDE, André (1869-1951), seven letters, two to an unidentified correspondent and 5 addressed to Richard HEYD, of the Éditions Ides et Calendes in Neuchâtel.- 1. 28.03.1924 (date added in pencil), not from the unknown recipient, autograph letter signed, 1 page in-4. Long letter which seems to revolve around the upcoming Decades of Pontigny. "Let us therefore inscribe P.V. [Paul Valéry] among the desirable guests, and desired. You can be sure that personally I would have the greatest pleasure in meeting him at Pontigny and in confronting him a little better than I can in Paris. As for the recommendations that should be made to him, and the appeal to his courtesy, I cannot do so by letter; I will have to wait until I return. Further on, on the wording of the decadence: "How could I not approve your 'wording'? It answers objections and criticisms in advance and warns of them. "Etc.- 2. 30.03.1924, letter addressed to the recipient of the previous one, 2 pages in-12. The correspondent is not Desjardins, because Gide asks at the end of the letter "to let Desjardins know". Very interesting letter: "Allow me a small supplement to my letter of the day before yesterday, because I notice that one word of the circular proposed for the next Pontigny and transmitted by you, remains in my head, so that I have come to believe that it is "undesirable". It seems to me that "L'intelligent XIXe s." is too obviously a response, a riposte to Léon Daudet. We don't have to answer him: that would be listening to him too much. Etc. Gide did not go to the 1st Decade "La Muse et la Grace" (8-18 August) nor did Valéry, but to the 2nd whose title was finally "L'Acquis du XIXe siècle dans l'ordre de l'intelligence" (19 to 29).- 3. 07.10.1948, to Richard HEYD, autograph letter signed (ink partly smudged by the paper, but still legible), 2 pages in- 8. "A letter from Catherine gives me some not very cheerful news about you this morning. As I am not doing very well myself and "not doing very well", I at least kept the hope of catching the dark rays of the bad star"... Etc. With a note in which Gide asks for two books to be sent. Face of envelope preserved.- 4. 01.12.1948, to Richard HEYD, autograph letter signed, 1 page in-8. Thanks for the books sent. Still worried about the health of his correspondent. "I had the pleasure of seeing your volumes of Theatre in front of the Gallimard bookshop, but I could not get any information about sales issues. "... Front of envelope preserved.- 5. 20.02.1949, to Richard HEYD, autograph letter signed, 2 pages in-12. "It is very unpleasant for me to have frustrated your hopes for these Autumn Leaves. To tell the truth, I do not really see what extracts could have made up a new volume [...]. I am now considering whether I could not entrust you with the Diary itself (1948) [...]". Gide confides that he had a "severe heart attack". Front of envelope preserved.- 6. 28.09.1949, to Richard HEYD, autograph letter signed, 1 page in-12. "No: no unfortunate interpretation of my silence that is not false: simply a great weariness (of heart and will)"... Etc. Announces a stay in Nice from 1 to 15 Oct. Accompanied by Mrs. V. R. [the Little Lady]. Undated, dedicatee unknown, but probably Richard HEYD, autograph letter signed, 3 pages in-12. "Running, between two suitcases - I am leaving tomorrow - impossible, alas! to wait for your coming to Paris. - I have entrusted to a typist friend of mine the correspondence of C.L.P. [Charles-Louis Philippe] with an indication in pencil in front of the passages which seemed to me to be publishable"... Etc.
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