LORRAIN (Paul Duval, known as Jean). Set of a manuscript and - Lot 133

LORRAIN (Paul Duval, known as Jean). Set of a manuscript and 3 letters. Autograph manuscript. Passage from his tale "Le vieux rose", in a version very different from the one published in the daily Le Journal on December 22, 1895, incorporating among other things 8 stanzas from the poem "Fanerie pour Sarah" originally published in 1887 in his collection Les Griseries. " ... Involuntarily caught up in the strange implausibility of the story, we were all musing on this at least novel case of neurosis of fabrics and shades. - Yes, a lover of the elegances of yesteryear, a nostalgic return to the dresses and luxury of the dead women of other centuries, a tender obsession for all that touched and enveloped their vanished bodies, for all that was in other times the adornment and soul of woman. Mallarmé indicated this...". (2 pp. folio). - Autograph letter signed [to writer Charles Buet]. S.d. "Did you receive my letter? The sonnets? The photo[s]? Astonished at this long silence! So bad tempered, you must warn me, then. I prefer to think that the austerities of Lent, or rather of Holy Week, have made it your duty not to reply to the reprobate that I am, unless you have dreamt the ideal on the faith of a well-sounding verse and that, my faith, the photographs and the original, which are far from the ideal, have extinguished you like an October rain on a straw fire! Yet yesterday I received two short stories from you: "Mab" and "La Joyeuse journée" ["La Petite reine Mab", published in review in 1882, and "La Joyeuse journée de mai"]. Is it a portrait that Raymond of "La Joyeuse journée"... and life-like and resembling, isn't it? It's a disgrace... so why get carried away with strangers! You're looking for the author of Le Sang des dieux [a work by Jean Lorrain published in 1882], and you find the author of Les Lys noirs (my next volume), THE AUTHOR OF LE SANG DES DIEUX IS DEAD, HE LIVED A LONG TIME AGO and I remembered him two or three years ago; CELUI DE LA FORET BLEUE A VECUDE DE DIX-HUIT A VINGT, CELUI DES LYS NOIRS A EXISTE PEUT-ETRE, ou du moins il me ha haint en ce moment [Jean Lorrain published Le Sang des dieux in 1882, La Forêt bleue in 1883, and Le Lys noir in 1901]. I thought I'd already told you that I'm unconscious. I'm waiting..." - - Autograph letter signed [to Jane Catulle-Mendès]. "This Wednesday morning. [Probably 1894]. "To think that there has been on the marble since Monday a tale dedicated to you and composed for you and after you. Anarchist bombs are cluttering up the whole paper! You'll recognize when you read it how unconsciously you worked on it. Now that I've brought THE LEGEND OF THE THREE PRINCESSES to your attention, keep an eye out for it, welcome it as a friend, or rather as the soul of a mirror, both deceptive and real, and above all believe me to be your friend... Best wishes to Catullus. Tale published in L'Écho de Paris on February 23, 1894, included the following year in his collection Sensations et souvenirs. - Autograph letter signed [to writer René Le Coeur]. Maison Rossignol, Plombières (Vosges), August 30, 1902. "Your article in the Journal de Fécamp had reached me in clipped form, and had delighted, charmed and even moved me, for the few lines devoted to my melancholy childhood in this undeserved country and my wanderings before the magic of the skies had revealed to me more than a critic, but a friend... Unfortunately, as fate would have it, the signature on this article was cut off, and in desperation I wrote to Mr. Carolus d'Harrans [pseudonym of the writer Charles Durand, editor-in-chief of the Journal de Fécamp] to ask for the name of the signatory. As it happens, the delicate and artistic friend is you..., so I bless the coincidence. Thank you, and so thank you. If Monsieur d'Harrans gave you my letter, you know what I thought of it. Without knowing its author, I was going to write to Henri Letellier to ask him to reproduce it in Le Journal! I'll do it all the more willingly now, and I'll insist all the more. I WRITE TO OLLENDORFF AND ASK HIM TO SEND YOU A VOLUME OF VICE ERRANT. Mr. CAROLUS D'HARRANS WILL RECEIVE HIS PHOCAS, but these two volumes will be without dedication, as I won't be returning to Paris until around February 15th, and even then I'll only be passing through quickly [Jean Lorrain had published his works Monsieur de Phocas and Le Vice errant with Paul Ollendorff, in 1901 and 1902 respectively]. I had given Lianeries et Faneries to my friend Martin Gale of La Presse [pseudonym of writer and journalist Albert Flament], asking him to talk about it because I no longer do a bibliography for the Journal... Please accept my sincere emotion and my already great gratitude..."