RÉGNIER (Henri de). Set of 5 manuscripts and 13 letters. - Lot 152

RÉGNIER (Henri de). Set of 5 manuscripts and 13 letters. - Autograph manuscript signed. Billet de minuit" column for Le Figaro, devoted to the funeral of MARECHAL FOCH (with allusion to that of Victor Hugo). - Autograph manuscript, signed. Billet de minuit" column for Le Figaro, devoted to JEAN MOREAS. - Autograph manuscript, signed. La Vie littéraire" column for Le Figaro, devoted to Muses romantiques by Marcel Bouteron, Les Femmes dans la vie de BALZAC by Juanita Helm Floyd, MARCELLINE DESBORDES-VALMORE by Jacques Boulenger. - Autograph manuscript. 1899. Article in which he announces that the Académie française has awarded him the Prix Vitet (1899). - Autograph manuscript signed. Column in "La Vie littéraire" for Le Figaro, devoted to Le Mystère en pleine lumière by MAURICE BARRES. - 9 autograph letters signed A SON EPOUSE MARIE DE REGNIER ("Cotte"). Literary and personal correspondence evoking her work as a writer, their son Tigre, various personalities such as Anna de Noailles, etc. - Autograph letter signed to art critic Gustave Geffroy. 1922. On "LA DANGEREUSE PREFACE QUE [RENE] MARAN A MISE EN TETE DE SON BATOUALA [published in 1921]", and on an "excellent study" devoted to this writer by Léon Bocquet. - 2 autograph letters and a card to poet Albert Saint-Paul. 1891 and n.d. Congratulates him on two collections of verse, including Pétales de nacre (1891). - Autograph letter signed [A RACHILDE]. 1901. Thanks for a favorable review of his book LES AMANTS SINGULIERS: "... This reality in the past that you recognize in my characters is so precisely what I wanted to do that I am very happy that you saw in it the main feature of these tales...". - Autograph letter signed to writer François Porché. 1904. Praise for the verses his correspondent sent him (his collection Chaque jour appeared in Cahiers de la quinzaine). - Autograph letter signed [probably to Édouard de Rougemont]. 1910. Concerning biobibliographical research on Auguste de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM: the work just published by his correspondent, those by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey and Alexis von Kraemer, and the articles he plans to publish in the Journal des débats on Villiers' theater. It also includes a rare photographic portrait of Villiers.