MONTESQUIOU (Robert de). A manuscript and 4 letters. - Lot 142

MONTESQUIOU (Robert de). A manuscript and 4 letters. Signed manuscript (5 pp. 1/4 in-folio, split at one fold). Long fragment of his reply to Émile Berr, who asked him about the future of L'ARISTOCRATIE. Comte de Montesquiou is said to have included a passage from this reply in his book Brelan de dames (Paris, Fontemoing, 1912). - 3 signed autograph letters concerning his commitment to the memory of MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE: to Gaston Calmette (1898), on his speech at the inauguration of the monument in honor of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore in Douai. To Julia Allard, wife of Alphonse Daudet (probably 1898), concerning a matinée in honor of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. To the same (1904), concerning a poem by her about Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. - Autograph bill signed to a critic. 1916. On 2 postcards with, on the versos, photographic views of the grounds of HER "CASTEL D'ARTAGNAN". "I have just finished reading your beautiful article, with all the emotion you could wish for. The expression "rallying man" is a real find. And, from the finial, which finishes the page, crowning me, I count, you have no doubt, all the gems and every pearl..." - Autograph letter signed [probably to Jane Catulle-Mendès]. 1917. Beautiful concluding formula: "... And in the meantime, I, like the beautiful Virginia, will have descended into the darkness of the earth...". - Attached, an autograph bill signed with his initials on a visiting card. 1906. Incomplete at the beginning.