HEREDIA (José-Maria de). Set of approximately 30 letters. - Lot 129

HEREDIA (José-Maria de). Set of approximately 30 letters. Correspondence of 7 autograph letters signed A CATULLE MENDES. 1893-1905 and n.d. In particular on the publication of his own poetic collection LES TROPHEES, and on the inauguration of the monument to Leconte de Lisle. - Correspondence of 4 autograph letters signed to the writer Jacques Normand. 1887-1894 and n.d. Concerning the writing of his DISCOURS DE RECEPTION A L'ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE on his predecessor, the historian Charles de Mazade ("The works of this honest writer give me an unspeakable somnolence"), his correspondent's poetic collection Les Moineaux francs, etc. - Autograph letter signed A AB AB AB AB AB AB AB AB AB. - Autograph letter signed A ABEL HERMANT. Paris, April 15, 1889. Fine letter on his correspondent's literary talents, particularly poetic. - Autograph letter signed to a young poet. Paris, December 3, 1901. " ... I read your last verses. I prefer them to the poem, which really was too much like Alfred de Musset. MUSSET IS A GREAT POET AND A BAD MASTER. Like you, I went through his excessive admiration. The "Stances" come from M. DE LAMARTINE, WHO IS A GREATER POET THAN MUSSET, BUT WHO NEVER MADE A GOOD STUDENT. However, I find in the "Stances" a preoccupation with the outside world that pleases me, although it reminds me too much of "Vallon" or "Milly". The "Advice" is grandiloquent but vague, above all too long. Don't give in to your ease, to your gift, which is real and beautiful. Condense your thoughts, make short fixed-form poems, sonnets, third rhymes, ballads, whatever you like. Tame yourself, soften yourself to a severe discipline. There's a trade in every art, and you have to learn it when you're as fortunate as you are to be young, so you don't have to worry about it later. SHUN ELOQUENCE, IT'S THE POET'S LAST QUALITY. Look for new images, coordinate them, condense them. THE POET MUST CONCEIVE ONLY IN IMAGES..." (2 pp. 1/2 in-8, crack previously restored). - Autograph letter signed to Baron Charles Davillier. S.d. He evokes the beauty of Normandy and the work of his correspondent (a great collector), Recherches sur l'orfèvrerie en Espagne au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, published in 1879, with a sonnet by him. - 16 autograph letters signed and one autograph visiting card. 1886-1905 and n.d. About his daughters Marie de Régnier, Louise Louÿs and Hélène Maindron, the diplomat Georges Louis (Pierre Louÿs's half-brother), Marie de Régnier and her husband's trip to the United States, bibliophilic acquisitions, Ludovic Halévy's reception at the Académie française, his deafness ("... I never go out at night anymore, and, without having his genius, I am deaf like the great Pierre de Ronsard..."), etc. ATTACHED, an autograph letter signed by his wife Louise Despaigne, an envelope in Henri de Régnier's handwriting addressed to Remy and Jean de Gourmont, which was intended as José-Maria de Heredia's death announcement, and an accounting document concerning a stock market transaction by José-Maria de Heredia.