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GIDE André (1869-1951).
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GIDE André (1869-1951).
35 L.A.S. "André Gide" or "A.G.", 4 L.S. and 2 L.A. (minutes), 1896-1947 and n.d., to various correspondents.
To Henri ALBERT. La Roque-Baignard September 4, 1896 (4 p. in-8), about the second volume of the Centaur, and the tale El Hadj which will appear in it... To Henri VANDEPUTTE. Paris Thursday [1896?] (4 p. in-12 mourning), thanking him for a dedicated book [L'Homme jeune?]: "It is because you are young and you feel it, that your sympathy is precious to me. Your soul is still full of music and poetry| that is more 'innate' in you than sad Ideas"... To Marie and Geneviève MALLARMÉ, Paris [end of September 1898] (1 p. in-4), thanking them for a beautiful picture which "illusorily prolongs the life" of "our missing Master"... To Édouard DUCOTÉ (2). La Roque-Baignard Monday morning [1899] (3 p.
in-8), rejoicing to receive him at La Roque. Saturday [1899] (3 p. in-8), about money advances to the poet Emmanuel Signoret, "it becomes dangerous especially if S. is accompanied by Mécislas, Callixte etc."... To Henry DAVRAY (6, 15 p. mostly in-8). Marseille November 5 [1900], on a mishap on departure from Marseille. Bray sur Seine [1902], for sending L'Immoraliste to Philippe Berthelot, to whom it is necessary to explain that Dr. Henri Vangeon and the "littérateur" Henri Ghéon are the same person. Cuverville [April 2, 1903], asking for facilities for a trip to Switzerland. Cuverville [end of August 1909], asking for the name of the author of an article in the Times about his Narrow Door. 2 others, thanking for a translation of H.G. Wells, urging the sending of a note from Francis Jammes to Belgium, ... To an "authorized critic" (3 p. in-12), thanking him for his "curious book" in which Gide is judged to be "in the line of Goethe": "I am happy to see that you have realized the predictions you made about me in '91"... To a poet (2 p. in-8), La Roque n.d., complimenting him on his poem: "I liked your dialogue| your thought has very beautiful outlines"... To Alfred VALLETTE (2 p. in-4), entrusting him with money to be given to Davray for his Paris-Bordeaux and Toulouse-Paris tickets, after verification of the sum... To Catulle MENDÈS. May 10, 1901 (3 p. in-4) [the day after the premiere of Le Roi Candaule], asking him to "forgive the impertinence of a preface that the almost total lack of understanding of other critics, concerning my play, has only too well justified"... To a poet friend. 8 October [1903] (3 p. in-4). "From all your anxieties today will come some admirable poems. He is going to embark to "find in Algiers the book to be written that awaits me". He loves Gauguin "passionately [...] Have you read the Feuillets de Moréas? [...] I am going to write a very impressive book - and one that will not irritate you.
To Jean ROYÈRE. 2 April 1908 (2 p. in-4). Having completed "Dostoyevsky according to his correspondence" for La Grande Revue, he returns to his novel [La Porte étroite], "too long neglected"... To Henri BACHELIN. 18 November 1912 (3 p. in-8): "for having distracted myself for some time from my book, I am now encountering such resistance from the material that I dare not look up for a few more days"... To a friend, [1912] (2 p. in-8), mentioning Schlumberger, Ghéon and Copeau... To Charles DU BOS (2| 3 p. in-4, envelope). Cuverville January 14, 1921, expressing his gratitude for a beautiful and insightful study, which he would like to see published again in volume for the French public. La Bastide Friday [late 1921?], after having hurried his departure, for fear of missing Mme
Théo at La Bastide, he "plunges back into Proust with delight"... To Henri MASSIS (5, including 2 l.s.| 12 p., rep.). 25 January 1924, reply to Jugements II, accusing the critic of being 'much more concerned with strangling me than with understanding me', of having distorted his sentences and his thought| nevertheless, 'since your study, I obviously feel that I am'. [End of January 1924], continuing the polemic, believing in fact that "the very notion of man, on which we have lived up to now, can no longer suffice us and that it deserves a revision - but you have preferred injustice and it is by this that your study will perish". 21 October 1929, ironically commenting on his efforts, as he believed 'you had already proved that I was dead', giving extracts from Goethe and Diderot by
Barbey d'Aurevilly, which recall his 'recent diatribes'. Cuverville March 1930, open letter of polemic, denouncing the bad faith of
Massis [reproduced in Massis' "Open letter to André Gide", Revue universelle, 15 July 1934]. September 26, 1934, asking for the "obituary article" about him... To Jean CASSOU. Cuverville June 13, 1932 (2 p. in-4, approx.), answering to Grandeur et infâmie de Tolstoï, and expressing his reservations about the Russian author, with whom Gide "always remains on the fringe of the soul"... To Raymond De BECKER. Cuverville 17 January 1934 (2 p. in-4). Draft of an open letter distancing itself from the journalist's dogmas
35 L.A.S. "André Gide" or "A.G.", 4 L.S. and 2 L.A. (minutes), 1896-1947 and n.d., to various correspondents.
To Henri ALBERT. La Roque-Baignard September 4, 1896 (4 p. in-8), about the second volume of the Centaur, and the tale El Hadj which will appear in it... To Henri VANDEPUTTE. Paris Thursday [1896?] (4 p. in-12 mourning), thanking him for a dedicated book [L'Homme jeune?]: "It is because you are young and you feel it, that your sympathy is precious to me. Your soul is still full of music and poetry| that is more 'innate' in you than sad Ideas"... To Marie and Geneviève MALLARMÉ, Paris [end of September 1898] (1 p. in-4), thanking them for a beautiful picture which "illusorily prolongs the life" of "our missing Master"... To Édouard DUCOTÉ (2). La Roque-Baignard Monday morning [1899] (3 p.
in-8), rejoicing to receive him at La Roque. Saturday [1899] (3 p. in-8), about money advances to the poet Emmanuel Signoret, "it becomes dangerous especially if S. is accompanied by Mécislas, Callixte etc."... To Henry DAVRAY (6, 15 p. mostly in-8). Marseille November 5 [1900], on a mishap on departure from Marseille. Bray sur Seine [1902], for sending L'Immoraliste to Philippe Berthelot, to whom it is necessary to explain that Dr. Henri Vangeon and the "littérateur" Henri Ghéon are the same person. Cuverville [April 2, 1903], asking for facilities for a trip to Switzerland. Cuverville [end of August 1909], asking for the name of the author of an article in the Times about his Narrow Door. 2 others, thanking for a translation of H.G. Wells, urging the sending of a note from Francis Jammes to Belgium, ... To an "authorized critic" (3 p. in-12), thanking him for his "curious book" in which Gide is judged to be "in the line of Goethe": "I am happy to see that you have realized the predictions you made about me in '91"... To a poet (2 p. in-8), La Roque n.d., complimenting him on his poem: "I liked your dialogue| your thought has very beautiful outlines"... To Alfred VALLETTE (2 p. in-4), entrusting him with money to be given to Davray for his Paris-Bordeaux and Toulouse-Paris tickets, after verification of the sum... To Catulle MENDÈS. May 10, 1901 (3 p. in-4) [the day after the premiere of Le Roi Candaule], asking him to "forgive the impertinence of a preface that the almost total lack of understanding of other critics, concerning my play, has only too well justified"... To a poet friend. 8 October [1903] (3 p. in-4). "From all your anxieties today will come some admirable poems. He is going to embark to "find in Algiers the book to be written that awaits me". He loves Gauguin "passionately [...] Have you read the Feuillets de Moréas? [...] I am going to write a very impressive book - and one that will not irritate you.
To Jean ROYÈRE. 2 April 1908 (2 p. in-4). Having completed "Dostoyevsky according to his correspondence" for La Grande Revue, he returns to his novel [La Porte étroite], "too long neglected"... To Henri BACHELIN. 18 November 1912 (3 p. in-8): "for having distracted myself for some time from my book, I am now encountering such resistance from the material that I dare not look up for a few more days"... To a friend, [1912] (2 p. in-8), mentioning Schlumberger, Ghéon and Copeau... To Charles DU BOS (2| 3 p. in-4, envelope). Cuverville January 14, 1921, expressing his gratitude for a beautiful and insightful study, which he would like to see published again in volume for the French public. La Bastide Friday [late 1921?], after having hurried his departure, for fear of missing Mme
Théo at La Bastide, he "plunges back into Proust with delight"... To Henri MASSIS (5, including 2 l.s.| 12 p., rep.). 25 January 1924, reply to Jugements II, accusing the critic of being 'much more concerned with strangling me than with understanding me', of having distorted his sentences and his thought| nevertheless, 'since your study, I obviously feel that I am'. [End of January 1924], continuing the polemic, believing in fact that "the very notion of man, on which we have lived up to now, can no longer suffice us and that it deserves a revision - but you have preferred injustice and it is by this that your study will perish". 21 October 1929, ironically commenting on his efforts, as he believed 'you had already proved that I was dead', giving extracts from Goethe and Diderot by
Barbey d'Aurevilly, which recall his 'recent diatribes'. Cuverville March 1930, open letter of polemic, denouncing the bad faith of
Massis [reproduced in Massis' "Open letter to André Gide", Revue universelle, 15 July 1934]. September 26, 1934, asking for the "obituary article" about him... To Jean CASSOU. Cuverville June 13, 1932 (2 p. in-4, approx.), answering to Grandeur et infâmie de Tolstoï, and expressing his reservations about the Russian author, with whom Gide "always remains on the fringe of the soul"... To Raymond De BECKER. Cuverville 17 January 1934 (2 p. in-4). Draft of an open letter distancing itself from the journalist's dogmas