NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS

DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES

March 9 1932.

Dear Friend,

what a life, what a life! A hundred times I have wanted to write to you and to send you a long, nice, amusing letter, every time I have been overwhelmed by fatigue and overworked. I have been very kindly received in your country, and they nearly kill me with work. In a way, I enjoy it. I like the feeling of excitement, the feeling of fatigue, it is for me a seasoning that fits America, I might even say, that for me America needs this seasoning to be felt, understood, and enjoyed.

(In the meantime, I have finally won my great fight in Paris. The Académie des Sciences morales et Politiques has elected me by a unanimous vote, and the Minister has appointed me on February 29. So now I am a fat old professor. Please do not forget that on April 11th at 5 P.M. I am going to give my first lecture at the College de France and shall be very proud if you come. I shall try to have a luncheon the day after or during the week with Bédier, You, Tardieu and one or two persons. But Tardieu does not want to accept an invitation long ahead.)

I have too many things to say to tell any one in particular. America is broke and amusing. The democrats are making a mess of their campaign, that was so easy to run. Hoover is hated and despised and might be reelected.

As for me, I am very busy on my next book.

I am busy on a few other things also. The most amusing one is a young gentleman, who teaches me swimming and of whom I am planning to make your disciple. He will be a good disciple for you and me, because he is nice looking and listens well. He is yet unspoiled and far from the "unloved thirties". He is still in the "unspanked undertwenties", but, I feel a good disposition to spank him and put him in shape before we allow him to enter Rue de Fleurus 23. For me he is distinctly the best discovery I have made since 1920. If he behaves, he will be given the Three Lives. We shall talk about him, because, before importing him to our wild shores, I want your advice. Of course he wants to be a writer.

Did you see the long essay on you recently published? I am bringing it to you.

I shall sail home on the Majestic and shall at once report to rue de Fleurus. I had some news from our Literary Colony in Paris, except a very sad and polite letter from Freddy, who seems this time to have succeeded in missing everything he wanted, and spoiling everything he had. But he still uses red ink, which he seems to enjoy much, and it makes me feel that, after all he may be happy when he comes home and settles in the Bronx.....

With my deepest and most respectful regards for Miss Tokles and you, I am, very sincerely yours.

Sunnyside,
James Street,
Stoke on Trent,
Staffs,
England.

June 29, 1932.

Dear Friend,

I have been lazy but not forgetfull. I have been
reading the translation of the Making of Americans and I like
it more and more, but to do a good job I need to have the English
version, and I do not have it. Renée has one, and I guess Bou-
tallau has another one. I think Boutallau, if he really has one,
could give it to me for the time being. Do you want me to write
to him?

I am in England, and luckily it does not rain. The
summer is very fine -- soft and rather hot. I enjoy it very much.
My brother-in-law is making much money and is very cheerful; my
sister is in good health and good spirit. The kids are healthy,
and we say that they are nice. Moreover, I have the pleasure
of having with me this young American, Murphey, of whom I spoke
to you. He works for me; he drives the car; and he is very help-
ful. He pleases me more every day and I think you will like him.

My July and August plans and not very clear; on July
16th I have to make a report to the French Academy on "American
Psychology." Think of that. And they hint that it is "The
Opening of a door. I am in no hurry to step in.-- If you like the
idea, I shall think I shall rather go first to Italy for ten
days and on the Rivière, and then between August 15th and August
20th I will come to see you for ten days. This scheme appeals to
me because I always like to keep the best for the end, and also
because by that time, Renée and myself will have done more work
on "the making." Tell me frankly if this suits you.

There are not many literary gossips in Stoke, and our
literary colony of Paris does not keep me informed, but I see that
the Picasso Exhibition has been a great success. At any rate it
is much talked of. I see also that silly Mrs. Crosby has given
a silly party where all the silly people in town went: hundreds
of our friends. I am reading a good deal, but contemporary lit-
erature in England is rather unimpressive. Maybe the least stupid
book is that book "Boy" though the hero, who in the first edition
was violated by three girls and twenty two men, in the third edition
has come down to two girls and five men; a poor showing.

I plan to be back in Paris sometime around July 10th.
Kindly let me hear of you -- of your garden hopes, of Miss Takles,
of Basket, and of the high life in Bilignin. I like to dream of
you. I often do. I always do like you so much.

so gratefully,
so respectfully

16. Rue Saint Guillaume. 7°

July 14, 1932

My dear friend,

Before your letter reached me, I had received "The Making." I suppose it is the copy of Boutelleau. At the same time, I received another hundred pages of translation from Renée. I am going to read it carefully next week as this week is wholly given to preparing my address before the Academy, renting a car, and getting Mr. Murphey's papers for driving it. Three delicate and important tasks.

I am planning to start sometime towards the end of next week in my car, a very clean new Citroen, not as picturesque as "Queen Godiva" but perfectly proper for a middle aged French Writer, and his American attendant. On our way from here to Italy, we may collect a few additional guests, such as eventually Sauget. I flatly refused taking Hugnet. I know him, and the car is too small for his manners and temper.

Paris is funny. There are still a lot of people, and they are all discussing the great problem of deciding whether Natasha Lelong has given up her husband for Cocteau or Cocteau for her husband.

Other gossips claim that the Feud between the Baumonts and the Noailles is getting worse every day. Anyhow the music for which the Noailles are paying is getting worse every night. The last performance at the Princesse de Polignac was a catastrophe. Three hundred guests had been invited. Two hundred and fifty in a drawing room adjacent to the music room. In the music room fifty faithful listeners listened first, then snored. Painters are not as upset as musicians, and the fame of Sir Fracis Rose seems to be spreading. I shall tell you more about it very soon.

The breakfast is waiting for me, and I conclude with my deep, faithful, and respectful affection.

(And for Miss Tokles, also, of course.)

--and messages for Basket also.

16. Rue Saint Guillaume. 7c

September 2, 1932

My dear Miss Toklas,

The first thing I found on my table on my arrival in Paris were my playing cards, and I was filled with gratitude to you for sending them so promptly and so exactly. So it gives me a chance to thank you for the thousand kind things you did for me and Hub and for the charming way in which you did them. The days in Bilignin were sweet and perfect, and a great deal of the sweetness and perfecting goes back to you.

May I ask you to express to Byron my very sincere sentiments of friendship. And, though there is no comparison, may I ask you to believe in my very deep and respectful affection,

P. S. I am afraid I forgot a big pair of scissors to cut newspapers in Bilignin. It might be in Hub's room. I guess they are. If you find them would you be kind enough to send them here and if you don't find them would you be kind enough to let me know. Many thanks.

September 8, 1932

16. Rue Saint Guillaume. 7c

Dear Miss Toklas,

I have received the cards. I have received the scissors.
And I am full of gratitude to you. I don't know very well how to express
it as my brain is a shapeless mess because I am trying to do too many
things. As a token of my gratitude I am sending to you and Miss Stein
some little pictures which we took in Bilignin. They are pretty good,
I and I think that the group near the fountain is a very charming picture.
Miss Stein

I like particularly the slightly skeptical smile of Byron. As another
token of my gratitude I am sending to you and Miss Stein a few gossips
gathered recently in Paris. Our dear friend, Mr. Kristians
Tonny writes from Rotterdam that he is poor, sad and unhappy, broke, de-
pressed, lonely, cheerless, and a few other things of the same type.
His exhibition had a great success which means that everybody in Rotter-
dam praised it, that a few people went to see it, and that nobody bought
anything. He doesn't think that it is the proper way to treat a great
artist, but they claimed it succeeded with Rembrant. The Dutch idea
seems to be that it is not healthy for a painter to have money as long
as he lives. It is not Tonny's theory. He prefers the French point of
view, and he is coming to Paris this fall. He declares that he will
give me hands for nothing (you remember that my portrait had no hands)
and he even states that he is ready to give me a new head and a great
bag belly for nothing....if I can only find for millionaire friends
to buy some of his pictures. Our friend Mr. Imbs has come back from the
Spanish Islands with a brand new novel. He is very cheerful though the
novel is very sad. The wife dies and the husband cries in the
novel, but Bravig eats well and Waleska works hard in fact. They
report that in the Baltic colonies of Americans it was noticed that
Mr. Elliot Paul couldn't stand any more liquor, nor his wife. On the
other hand it was rumored that noble handsome and wealthy Spanish dukes
were only waiting to kidnap her in their yachts. Hence the letter she
wrote to Miss Stein. (She seems to have discovered that Elliot Paul
by his selfishness has spoiled the great career that expected her in
Paris).

His exhibition had a great success which means that everybody in Rotterdam praised it, that a few people went to see it, and that nobody bought anything. He doesn't think that it is the proper way to treat a great artist, but they claimed it succeeded with Rembrant. The Dutch idea seems to be that it is not healthy for a painter to have money as long as he lives. It is not Tonny's theory. He prefers the French point of view, and he is coming to Paris this fall. He declares that he will give me hands for nothing (you remember that my portrait had no hands) and he even states that he is ready to give me a new head and a great bag belly for nothing....if I can only find for millionaire friends to buy some of his pictures. Our friend Mr. Imbs has come back from the Spanish Islands with a brand new novel. He is very cheerful though the novel is very sad. The wife dies and the husband cries in the novel, but Bravig eats well and Waleska works hard in fact. They report that in the Baltic colonies of Americans it was noticed that Mr. Elliot Paul couldn't stand any more liquor, nor his wife. On the other hand it was rumored that noble handsome and wealthy Spanish dukes were only waiting to kidnap her in their yachts. Hence the letter she wrote to Miss Stein. (She seems to have discovered that Elliot Paul by his selfishness has spoiled the great career that expected her in Paris).

I've seen Paul Bowles today looking much healthier and going to Monte Carlo with Virgil Thompson to study music. He always makes his mistakes in Autumn. He came with his mother who is sweet and seems quite lost. I strongly advised her to take him back to New York. He said to me that after learning some music from Virgil he expected to learn some more from Antheil. He was surprised at my surprise.

I am sailing on Tuesday, and as I am preparing myself for seven
days and a half of sea sickness, I'm already exhausted. The idea
that I am sailing with Murhey who is not going to be sick stirs in me
a certain amount of indignation. But that will be a test for his good
breeding. Fortunately, I only heard that three people I knew and
thoroughly dislike were sailing on the Paris, so my sea sickness will
be good for something. I'll dream of Bilignin and of you and of Miss
Stein (and of Byron): Don't tell Basket.

With great respect and affection,

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Paris, le 7 II 34.

Dear Friend, I have just read your dedicace, and I read
it with deep emotion and joy. I am proud of this book of
yours as if it were my own book, and I love it more than
anythingI have done. And it is such a joy that this work
withyou has given me and is giving me. It is such a pleasure
to live near you and with you, because you are the only per
son I know whose life is all life and all alive.

I shall be at your home at three.D'Espezel will be
there also.

Those arerather trying days,days that could not be a-
voided but which are unpleasantand unsavory for all French
men but particularly for me. It is one more reason why I
am so grateful to you.

With my profound affection.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 79

May 27, 1934

Dear Friend,

I have just arrived in Toulouse, not in Paris where I shall not be until June 4th. I hurry up to answer you.

I quite agree that these offers are very tempting, and if I were you I should be inclined to accept them. Columbia is an excellent place to give six lectures that should be likely to accept them were it your. I believe also that the Colony Club and the Cosmopolitan Club (where really there are intelligent women) would be glad to invite you, and that I could manage it.

On the other hand, if I were you I would decline giving less than two lectures in each place. There are many reasons for it but the most important is that the kind of public that goes to two lectures is infinitely higher than the kind that goes to one. That would make impossible also these hurried trips which are existing for any lecturer. And that would give to your voyage a more serious and interesting character. I should also make a point not accepting to give any lectures before November 1st. I should remain in France until the time of the publication of your translation. It is highly important. Moreover in New York and New England life really begins in November and not before. You don't have really interesting politics before November 1st. I think that if I were you I should not plan on arriving before the very end of October and that I would not accept to lecture for more than six weeks, November 1st to December 15th.

Such are my reactions. I'll be thinking of it more and I'll write to you by the middle of next week. Unfortunately I do not think it possible to go to see you very soon. I have a million duties waiting for me in Paris, and I have the impression that I should be seen in Paris steadily for two months if I do not want to antagonize people who are beginning to feel that when I was in Clermont I was in Paris and when I was in Paris I was everywhere. You know how people are. Just now the wind is blowing my way. The minister of education asks me to take charge of some historical investigations. At the Collège the France they need me for some important decisions in June. And I have to see my political and literary friends. (I am overjoyed by the election of the Duke de Broglie to the Académie Française. Mr. He is a great friend of mine and a charming man.) Finally I have to rest. I am tired of travelling and of changing food every day. Otherwise things are going well. Bengy is fine and today at 5:30 I am lecturing on you.

Faithfully yours,

TELEPHONE 190

VILLA LOVIS-ENEA
SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ - B.-P.

June 1, 1934

Dear friend,

I send you just a few lines to tell you that I have just
received the proof sheets of my translation of your chapter six, which
is going to be published in the Revue Hebdomadaire. I am correctly
in a hurry while it rains, and I am preparing my return to Paris Tues-
day nite, and if there is anything really urgent we could telephone to
each other Wednesday morning as I am not planning on going out much
that morning. My telephone number as you know is Littré 7879.

16. Rue Saint Guillaume, 7e

June 11, 1934

Dear Friend,

I had just received your letter and I hurry to answer.
I had the feeling that Bradley was making mistakes and I am sorry to
see I was right. If I were you I wouldn't sign with this lecture
bureau. It is enough to look at their paper to know what kind of people
they manage. You do not want to be managed by the same people that
manage the Abbé Dimnet. On the other hand it would be too bad not to
go to Columbia. I think it is really important that you go, and
I do not see why you should not give four lectures, one every week.
In the meantime I am sure we could arrange some other ones in clubs
and nearby universities. I am in contact with the Colony and Cosmo-
politan Clubs, and Mrs. Goodspeed (Chicago University), who is in Paris
and very anxious to arrange something in Chicago. And I think she can
with Fanny Butcher. (She is the wife of the gentleman who is supposed
to be the closest to the wife of the president of the university).

About Harcourt Brace. It is too bad what is happening.
Pearce is certainly a great admirer of your work, and Harcourt is a
nice man. But you may know that he has been very sick and Brace has
been managing the affairs. It is a good firm and I should be sorry
to see you break with them, but of course you may have to, and you are
the only one to be able to decide it.

Paris is very hot and sunny and rather cheerful. Cocteau
is all over the place. He is very fat and selling his furniture. He
thinks Mimia will buy some, but he is wrong. I am afraid Mrs. Good-
speed will. Everybody, family and other people are excited with the
idea that very soon they will have to rest and take their vacations.
It upsets them and makes them very nervous. I am planning to take
no vacation I am very quiet. Hub is leaving Wednesday on the Champlain.
He will be in New York on the 20th. If you want him to convey some
messages or do something in New York for you kindly call me up Tues-
day between 8 and 10 PM, Littré 7879.

Very faithfully and affectionately,

Bernard.

Paris, le17 VI 34.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Dear Friend,

I have seen Carl V. W. Mrs Bradley and I have thought a good deal, and here are the conclusions I have reached. I feel very strongly that it would be too bad if you did not go to the U.S.A.. This trip will be enjoyable for you, useful for the sale of your work and its understanding abroad. I think also it will give you a new contact with America, etc. But of course you should never accept to be the "star" of a lecture bureau, that would be horrible. Consequently I offer you to write at once to my friend MARVIN ROSS, a youngish Harvard Graduate (Fine Arts, thesis on XII th Century enamels in France) who after being Conservateur of one of the smaller museums in the Middle West is how out of a job (the Museum closed for lack of funds) and stays with his family on Long Island, near New York. He can do whatever has to be done as secretarial work, he does not leave New York and is stable there. He can get in touch with Universities and knows how to handle them; he is gentle, obedient and reliable, he is very devoted to me and a great admirer of yours. He will not charge much for the work and he will be very proud of doing that... Recently, when Chadourne went to America, Ross worked for him as secretary and Chadourne liked him much. He is a better choice temporarily than Hub who is planning to "wander" for a month or more and who is going to go through one of his periods of "unreliability". Moreover, and your head-quarter should be in the East Ross is a better choice. Kindly let me know if you approve, and, if so, do write to Bradley, who is ready to accept it, according to Mrs Bradley's statement, and also send a line to Marvin Ross, Morishes, Long Island, N.Y.. He is about 30, son of a Long Island Duck-farmer, poor, but not positively starving.

I think you should go ahead with your plans and lectures, and sail for N.Y. not before the middle of October. By that time I feel pretty sure that enough lectures will be organized to guaran tee your expanses.... If not you could always wire that you are not in good health and have to postpone. As you will not have cont racted with a lecture bureau there will be no trouble. The Univer sities would be sorry to lose you, and quite glad to save some mo-ney.... I know it. It happened to me.

Paris is exceedingly amusing and full of life. It is very hot too. The weather is divine and hot. We have also some very hot entertainments. Especially hot because of the number of "fours". We had a Noailles "four" (the flop of the last Markievitch music, a very noisy, brilliant, empty, academic-unacademic, russian psalm. This young ass had obliged his friends to give his music with Mozart and Bach alone, and no young not even Stravinsky, who, he said to the newspapers is "an old dodo". Well Nadia Boulanger gave a Bach-Mozart-Markievitch concert, and this proved that even if Stravinsky is not so very new Bach and Mozart are a lot younger than noisy pompous Mr Markievitch. Then Mr Markievitch went to see Mr Stravinsky and asked him if he did not want him, Markievich, ma ke a new and explanatory statement about him Stravinsky. But said Stravinsky answered that as far as himself he did not care, but that

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it might be better for Mr Markievitch's sake if he Markievitch issued in the newspapers a statement saying that he was not as silly as the newspapers would like people to believe...That was the end of this russian drama.

Then we had a Beaumont"four". He gave a new ballet with a new boy dancer Lischine, and the ballet was very dull and stupid, though the boy is all right as a dancer, but not much more. So after all the Polignac had a comfort. But the Beaumonts had been so overjoyed by the Polignac's -Noailles flop that they look very happy.

Seen Virgil; very pale and Byron-like. He has a slight ailment that prevents him from riding onhorseback. Maurice happens to have the same ailment. I don't know about Mrs Langlois. She and Virgil live a quiet family life at the Palace Hotel rue du Four. Virgil does not praise Bradley, but he spaks respectfully of you. I am not planning to see much of him, but I am not planning to avoid him, though I am planning to avoid Mrs Langlois. I am ready to face death when I die, but I am not willing to face a bad copy of Death as long as I live.

As I told you, Hub left Thursday. We drove to Havre and George drove me back. George is staying with me now. I miss Hub of course because he is really a sweet boy and he charming companion. But this trip home is good for him, and was necessary, and I shall enjoy being alone in a few days. In the fall we shall see about the future. I guess that we shall find a "modus vivendi". Though I do not know exactly what it will be. I need a good secretary and Hub is by far the best I ever had. Hub needs to earn his living and I do not see what else he could do to earn it.

There are many more things to be said, but I have to write a lot of letters and I leave you. I'll write soon again.

With my great love and affection and admiration.

Bernard.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

June 21, 1934

Dear Friend,

Here are the answers to your questions.

1. I think it would be best to tell Marvin Ross that you will pay him all his expenses plus five per cent of the lectures that he arranges for you (or which are arranged through him). I think it would be well also to send him at once a small amount of money to help him buy stationary and other things, let's say twenty dollars.

2. It is perfectly right to lecture for a certain amount of money in one place and for another amount in another place. For instance, I think that you should ask in principle a minimum of one hundred dollars for one lecture, two hundred for three lectures, and two hundred and fifty for four lectures. But of course you should get also your traveling expenses. But in some towns where the students have poetry clubs, if I were you, I would accept a small amount to lecture for them if you have already contracted for several lectures.

3. You should send him the titles and an outline in three or four lines of each lecture that you are ready and willin g to give.

4. If I were you I would answer directly Putter at Columbia. You have started handling the matter directly, you had better finish it up. On the other hand, once you are through with Putter it would be best to tell him that from now on Marvin Ross is in charge of all the details. I am writing to Marvin Ross and Carl Van Vechten. will see him. You shoul d put him in touch at once with the other friends who are interested in your trip.

The letters that you sent to me are awfully amusing and pleasant, but we will speak of them some other day as this is merely a business letter written a very busy morning. Everything is all right here and I am looking forward to my visit to Bilignen. Today I have a tea party for Carl Van Vechten.

Faithfully yours,

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

June 28, 1934

Dear Friend,

I quite agree with you that Bradley is getting im-
possible, and I think that you are wise in holding him in check.
The Lee business was absurd and his tendency of selling books
before they are written and before they are thought of is pre-
posterous. I know how heavily it has weighted upon me in the
last five years, and I think that for us authors there is prac-
tically worse than this feeling that we have to follow a
program and fulfill all promises.

On the other hand, I would not see much harm if
Bradley would meet Ross. Ross will act under my general guidance
and so cannot be misled by Bradley.

Paris is very amusing and very hectic. I am giving
today my last teaparty of the season. It is for my friends
between six and sixteen. The last one was very funny and a great
success. The last minute Gide, whom I had not invited, sent
a pneu asking if he might come. I got it too late to say yes.
But has he thought that I would say yes, he did not come anyhow.

There is also the story of how Gerard and his mistress
(the laughing horse) were expelled from a party (Daisy Fellowes)
where they had been invited only by each other (each of them
believing that the other had been invited).

My party is waiting for me, and so I have to go.
I send you my deep and lasting affection.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Paris, le 30 VI 34.

Dear Friend,

it has been a long day, but I want to write to you because I have a good many good news.

1. I have received the first ~~three~~ of the proofs of the translation; they mean really to publish it in October. The N.R.F. article in the October issue of the New York Times is very interesting, and I hope to see you and arrange something with you. He is going to call on me and said that Harvard wanted to have you. He said he wanted to see you and arrange something with you. He is going to call on you and on his way back, around August 15 he would like to call on you. He feels sure that he can have one or two lectures for you in Harvard, one in Boston, and one in Philadelphia (Acorn Club). He is a very nice boy, and exceedingly influential at Harvard. He feels that you are absolutely right in refusing to have anything to do with a lecture bureau....(I have a good proof of i t anyhow...I'll tell you).

2. Mr Spenser, Professor of English literature at Harvard, called on me and said that Harvard wanted to have you. He said he wanted to see you and arrange something with you. He is going to call on you next Sunday. She is going to Geneva. She suggests that she takes the night train for Aix les Bains, Satudray; she would motor early in the morning to Bilignin, be there at 9, talk with you, and then continue to Geneva, where she has to be at 12 40 for a train. I said I should write to you at once. (I thought also you might be willing to drive her to Geneva and have lunch there with her before she takes the train?) Would you be kind enough to let me know promptly what you think of it?

3. Mrs Goodspeed, a good-looking silly-clever Evanston lady, wife of a gentleman who is the foremost trustee in Chicago University, and also the lover of the wife of the president, wants to be authorized to call on you. She wants to have you give the opening address at the Art club in Chicago (end of November) and one or two other lectures in town, and also one or two probably at the University. She would like to be authorized to call on you next Sunday. She is going to Geneva. She suggests that she takes the night train for Aix les Bains, Satudray; she would motor early in the morning to Bilignin, be there at 9, talk with you, and then continue to Geneva, where she has to be at 12 40 for a train. I said I should write to you at once. (I thought also you might be willing to drive her to Geneva and have lunch there with her before she takes the train?) Would you be kind enough to let me know promptly what you think of it?

(She should me a preposterous and impertinent letter written by C. Lee, about you. They were "offering" you in the most obnoxious manner, the latter is dated June 9. That is not to be for - given. The people in Chicago were raving mad against this letter, where Chicago was called in a contemptuous way "the Middle West". I am keeping a copy of the letter for you; I want to give it to you and I wish you would use it to show Bradley what he should never have done. It's an outrage, really.)

There is much more to be said, but I shall not say it tonight as I am very sleepy. I have started to work in earnest, and I need badly, I was kind of gloomy. I feel better, and very eager to write a lot, one, two, three books; at once, in a hurry...I hope to do it.

But anyhow I'll be in Bilignin for the beginning of August.
With my deep affection, admiration and devotion.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume, 7e

Paris, July 17 1934.

Dear Friend,

just seen Bradley. He has been with me for a
little more than one hour and a quarter, and he has spoken the
whole time. I have said very little. He came as a fallen angel
full of sweet feelings and devotion towards you. He made his
case very good and very touching.

He looks quite "gaga", as a matter of fact very changed.
He has been sink in New York for six weeks. That explains many
things. Now he is toothless and more or less nerveless.

He claims that when he arrived he found himself facing a g
ang of people whom Virgil had stirred up against you and that
he behaved beautifully and heroically, he claims that by choos-
ing Caulston Leigh he made a master stroke and found for you
thousands of dollars of possible lectures, and so on and so on,
And he adds "Now I have done so much for her that I think I shall
withdraw with dignity"....

Well, truly I do not quite know what to say. He seems more harmless
than I thought first, but maybe I am wrong. He is certainly, in hi
his present condition, unable to do any good work. It might be wi-
ser to be a little patient, but in the long run you'll have to
get rid of him, I am afraid. I think that in fact he may have
defended your ( and his ) interests pretty well one or two times, but
it is clear that he has made a mess of the lecture trip and
also of your dealings with Harcourt, though there, I believe, no-
thing final has been done. Peirce is still with Harcourt and I
guess you and Iwe shall be able to get in touch with them again.

I am terribly busy and tired. I am sending by George, who
is leaving to morrow a strong letter to Ross. I hope that we
shall hear from him soon.

I long to see you, and if possible to see you alone and
quietly. There are hundred of things we have to talk about and
I can't feel that I prefer anybody's company to our long
chats.... I am selfish.

All my affection.

Paris, 23 IX 34.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 79

Dear Friend,

here is the answer of my friend, but I am not sure
that he has understood the thing clearly. He is a very good lawyer
and a very good mind but I am not a very good go-between for le-
gal matters, so I think the best thing would be to wait until you
come back and to come to dine with him at my home as soon as you are
ready to dine out.

I am working very hard, and enjoying it. Paris is cool, wet and sweet, it would be perfect if there were only a few ducks, but I am not able to locate any one in my part of Paris.

The letter of Harcourt is exceedingly funny and made me
laugh a good deal, also it proves how poor Bradley has been as an a-
gent. Finally it proves that the house of Harcourt is coming back
to their old and normal feelings of affection and admiration towards
you.

I have had an exceedingly funny letter from our Good speed.
She is really a stunner. What do you think she does? She asks me to
smuggle in America a ring of some kind that she ordred in Paris and
for which she does not want to be bothered by the customs! She is real
ly an effeicent and practical woman. I have answered a very sweet and
affectionate letter saying that I was ready to carry the ring and
pay for the customs; and that she would have no other trouble than to
give me the money back when we see each other in Chicago......

Dined yesterday with the Bosquette. She spoke of you and
said you had genius. Everybody said "of course"; and she added that
Cocteau was in very bad shape, though he had kidnaped Markeivich, and
she said Marie Laure de Noailles says that Markievich has written to
her that he would not see her now because she is too dull. I said "Her
pocket book also is flat"; but Me Bosquet said wisely "No picket book
is ever flat for a Russian". And she proved i by adding that Youra
Flevitzky had become her great intimate friend. So that is why Bravig
has no chance with her.

Well I work to hard to be able to say more. Don't worry about
Moses and Bradley; I feel sure that we shall be able to settle it, but
we should make no mistake and for that the only thing is a meeting of
you and the lawyer.

With great love and admiration.

Jay is in very good health, he works for a good deal. He has correc
ted my report to Harvard on my Hyde lectures and put it in German
Harvard English. As my report previously was filled with jokes that he
did not dare take out, it makes a very fine report indeed. Jay is stay
ing in Paris; I guess you and I have somewhat upset his live....

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MISS GERTRUDE STEIN=

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AM FINDING LOTS OF WORK HERE AM SO TIRED THAT I FEEL IT
WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO VISIT YOU IN BALTIMORE IF YOU
COULD BOTH LUNCH WITH ME AT MRS KEEPS ON WEDNESDAY

DECEMBER TWENTY SIXTH I WILL BE VERY HAPPY HOPING YOU
ARE WELL MERRY CHRISTMAS=

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Paris 9 ix 34

My dear Mrs Blagden:

I have just received your kind
letter of August 22 and I am glad to answer at once that these
three dates - November 7, 14, & 21 - suit me very well; Miss I
Stein also will be glad to speak for the second part of the
lecture on November 14 & 21. So this is settled.

I suggest as the general title:
LA RENAISSANCE DU XXième SIECLE.

1) Les peches du XIXe siecle de Victor Hugo et Tennyson a Swinburne et Mallarme.

2) La renaissance du début du XXe siecle et le rôle de Miss Stein. Avec une lecture de Miss Stein sur l'origine de son œuvre.

3) L'Apotheose du XXe siecle, le nouvel esprit en poésie et en art avec une lecture de Miss Stein sur le développement de son œuvre.

Apres chaque conference Miss Stein et M. Fay seront a la disposition de leurs auditeurs pour répondre aux questions que l'on souhaitera de leur poser.

Such is my suggestion. If you want,
I can send you longer synopses, but we did not do it generally,
if I remember well. I should preferably speak in French, but if
you want I may speak in English. Miss Stein will speak English
of course.

I am looking forward to meeting
you again and addressing your club where I have always found
such a good welcome.

With greatest respect and
gratitude, I am, my dear Mrs Blagden,

sincerely yours,

BF/j14

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COLONY CLUB
nyc

August 22, 1934

Dear M. Fay:

Mr. Marvin Ross and I have just had a very pleasant
luncheon and we have settled on Wednesday mornings, November 7th,
14th, and 21st. This schedule seems to be within the limits of
Miss Stein's engagements and from your letter I understand will
be agreeable to you.

Will you be so kind then as to forward to me at your
earliest convenience a synopsis of your talks as you wish them
to be printed? I am enclosing the last invitation from the Club
which may be of interest to Miss Stein and to you and will be
a basis for the invitation this time.

We will do our best with the financial returns and
I have every confidence that we will have large audiences so
that we shall all be content.

With kindest regards, believe me

BF/j14

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

July 5, 1955

Miss Gertrude Stein-

Dear Friend-

I have plunged back into Paris life and I feel
rather like a man who does not know very well how to dive
and gets drowned at once. It was so good to be on the firm
ground of Bilignin and to rest and to talk and to drive and to
walk. It was so pleasant to spend the longest and the most
beautifol days of the year with you. It was a fitting thing
also and I may say in all honesty that I enjoyed it more than
anything else I have done this year. Our drive was fast and
successful. Bengy behaved well and did not squeak. Diane
behaved well and did not talk too much. Hub behaved equally
well and did not talk at all. We stopped for two churches
and I bought three books. We were in Paris at four o'clock,
and in the evening I went to Beaumont's ball, which was quite
amusing but showed that modern painting is in full retreat.
Everybody had to dress like a picture. There was not one
Picasso, not one Cézanne or Gaugin, and the only Manet was a
copy of Goya by Manet.

On the 4th of July I praised Franklin in the morn-
ing and America in the evening. It was fun and everything went
well, but now I am winding up my affairs and starting for
London as soon as possible. Paris is all excited about the
coming revolution but nobody really wants to start it, as every-
body feels that he who starts it will be licked and that
the winner will be the one who starts the counter-revolution.
Consequently I think that the time has come to go to London.
From there I shall send you a long letter. In the meantime
have a good time and remember my deep affection and gratitude.

Bernard

P. S. Tell Alice how grateful I am for the splendid lunch she gave us. We ate it with relish.

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 72

July 21, 1935

Miss Gertrude Stein.

Dear Friend-

I have not heard from you for some time, but I hope that it simply proves that you are busy writing. I had myself a very busy time in Paris with a lot of political excitements and some rather amusing dinners. Then I left for England and had a very pleasant and eventful trip. I found a good deal of interesting historical material and rain in London. Next week I am going to Windsor where I hope to collect a lot of information for my lectures of next winter.

A new slice of my old aunt's inheritance just fell into my pocket when I left Paris, so I decided to be reckless and buy the picture and the Fontenelle. Consequently whenever you go to Aix and Chamberry would you kindly tell "Pas Chér" that I buy the Fontenelle set and the little book of 19th Century songs (the whole for 68 francs), and in Aix tell the man I buy his 17th Century picture for 150 francs and his Louis-Philippe Veilleuse for 50. If they write to me I'll send them the money, and just ask them to keep the things until I collect them in the Fall. Thank you for your kindness, and of course if you don't happen to go to Aix or Chamberry don't bother about the whole thing.

You will probably have the visit of Helen Simpson and her husband, who are touring Europe in 10 days and are planning to spend an hour in Belley to see you. They have been having a very good time in Paris settling the Coty inheritance, and I went with her to Brussels to see the exposition which in a funny way looks like a reduced and exasperated Chicago fair with more beer, more paintings, more dust, and minus the lake. It was great fun.

Hoping that you have a good time with Thornton, to whom I send my faithful regards. I am.

VILLA REALE

MARLIA

TEL. 54 68

LUCCA

September 1, 1935

Miss Gertrude Stein.

Dear Friend-

For one week I have been resting and correcting the proofs of my American book on which I have put the changes which you suggested and which I think greatly improve the book. Now the only thing I can do is to wait and hope for success.

I am here with Marquess, who is a really nice companion and who has just told me a story which might interest you. He says he heard, and holds for sure, that after fighting bittering for many months, Picasso and his wife have separated. It seems that not only Picasso, but the boy too, could not stand any more the moods of the woman. Now Picasso is in Switzerland with a girl who is supposed to be a 'remplacante' of no great importance. Mrs. Picasso has "attached" all that Picasso has earned, is earning and will earn. A divorce is pending and will be soon pronounced. Most people say that it is all right and very fortunate for Picasso. I am not a good judge. I did not know his wife. As I said previously the girl with him now does not play an important part in the story. Let us hope that this divorce, which everybody says cannot be avoided, will prove helpful for him and give him the new stimulation he needs.

The weather is heavenly and I am playing golf, swimming, etc. I expect to leave sometime at the end of the week or the very beginning of next week and go leisurely from here to Belley. I have to stop two or three days in Grenoble to see some archives and I may have to go to Geneva also for business reasons. I hope to be in Belley around the 12th and I should stay with you a few days if it is convenient. Unfortunately I am afraid it will be a very few days. I have just heard of an International Congress of Historiens to be held in Amsterdam, which I had completely forgotten and where my presence is requested, and where it is important for me to be owing to the last book which I published.

If by chance you should go to Aix some day and have 10 minutes to spare would you tell the man I am going to buy his 17th Century painting?

My sincere regards to Alice and to you as ever
my deepest and most respectful affection.

(Copy)

December 24, 1935

To:
The United Press.

Gentlemen:

A newspaper clipping of a United Press dispatch has just recently been shown to me, one which contains statements so untrue that I feel obliged to write to you. According to this clipping Mr. Rousseau Voorhies is supposed to have said before the Pen and Pencil Club:

"It was a magnificent hoax. Two years ago Miss Stein agreed with Bernard Fay, the French critic, and myself to cook up something that would test American illibility. 'Four Saints in Three Acts' was the outcome -- 'A rose is a rose is a rose.'

"Miss Stein set the bald headed row of American critics wild with her verbal strip act. She's the Sally Rand of American literature.

"Thornton Wilder took her seriously and got literary delirium tremens. He's still trying to recuperate."

There is no truth whatever in any one of these statements. It is untrue also that Miss Stein and myself gave any mission to Mr. Voorhies. I had introduced Mr. Voorhies to Miss Stein feeling that he would be able to understand the superior quality of her work. I was wrong.

I have stated too often my own feelings concerning the books of Miss Stein to repeat what I have said in "The Saturday Review of Literature" (September 2, 1935) and in the "Revue de Paris" (December 1, 1935), vis, that of all the American writers Miss Stein is the one to whom I owe most and the one whom I consider as the most creative and the most interesting.

Very sincerely yours,

Bernard Fay,
16 rue St. Guillaume,
Paris, 7.

Paris, April 27 1936

16. Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Dear Friend,

when I left Paris, I was full of good intentions and meaning to do a lot of work, but when I found myself in Rome, fatigue overcame me, and I had to give up my dreams of activity to accept a leisurely life of slow travel through Italy and Southern France that has finally brought me back to Paris to vote yesterday night and find your two letters.

I have found Me de Clermont Tonnerre stranslation that is very good, generally, and I like her preface too. Mine will be very different, you'll see. I shall show you what I am preparing as a preface, except if you prefer using my article of the Revue de Paris? (It has had a great deal of success and is even now much talked of, so it will be up to you to tell me if you would like to have it reprinted or if you think the shorter thing, in a way more impersonal, that I am now writing, would be better?

I have millions and millions of things to tell you. The articles are very funny; it is just like the gospels says, the first will be the last, and the last the first. Our friend Bergery will be reelected, and our friend Fabre-Luce may be elected, but our friend Herriot will look foolish and be very sour, and tomorrow will be a day for new men. But, you may say, in France, they always make new men with old ones. T rue. So we can hope to have a lot of new-old men, and of old-new men. Our poor friend Monzie is in a bad way. And all in all those elections have a satisfactorily absurd appearance. It pleases me, because I am not a believer in democracy, and because I feel that it is healthy for men to be absurd.

I am doing my bit of absurdity just now too. I am lecturing on Polish literature: Well I was rather poor and the Poles pay me very well for giving six lectures on them. It amuses me, I have to disco ver Poland, and read about two hundred translations. There is good stuff in 16 and 17 th and 19 th century polish literature. Their romanticism is fact better than ours. The more I get old, the more I feel and find out that French romanticism was decidedly third rate. Maybe it is because our 19 th century painting was too good. Or maybe it is because French language can not express romantique feelings.

The Emergency Peace Campaign" in U.S.A. wants also to buy me, but I guess I am going to decline. Peace does not seem to me so urgent, and war so dangerous, at any rate in America. I shall suggest them to start their campaign in Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Abyssinia. It would be more interesting, and eventually more efficient. A peace-campaign in America can only help war-makers in Europe. The riddle, I think, is not to make more peaceful the peace-lovers, but to make peaceful the excited ones. And that is a nice problem. But I bet on "nowar for 10 years".

Had a lovely time in Italy and southern France.

Hope rain has stopped! Do write. Most affectionately

yours.

MISS JESSIE S. MOORE
RESIDENT MANAGER

Berea 6 X 36

Under Management of Berea College
WILLIAM J. HUTCHINS, PRESIDENT

BEREA, KENTUCKY

Dear Friend,

your last letter mailed at Belley on
Sept 23 has just reached me here. And I hasten to
answer. Here are tht things that I sent to Galli-
mard in June :

Litterature Anglaise (étude) par Me de
Clermont-Tonnerre.

Tableaux, traduction par id;

Poésie et Grammaire, par id;

Littérature Anglaise, traduction par moi;

La création graduelle des Américains d'
Amérique, par moi.

Je suis en train de recopier les études sui -
vantes: Sagesse humaine, (étude sur vous) par moi;
Une Américaine et la France, traduction
par moi; Ce qu'est un Chef d'oeuvre, et pourquoi
il y en a si peu.

Je pense qu'avec cela on aurait un livre com-
plet, mais si Me de Clermont Tonnerre veut faire d'
autres traductions, et si cela vous convient, cela
me convient aussi. Mes traductions et études seront
expédiées avant la fin du mois, directement à Galli-
mard. S'il n'en veut pas, j'essayerai un autre édi-
teur.

Je viens de voir dans le Saturday Evening Post,
votre édute sur l'argent. C'est excellent.

Je suis ici dans l'université dont le Père de
Hutchins est président, c'est un fort aimable homme,
et avec qui j'ai eu le plaisir de parler de vous, car
son fils lui a dit son admirati on pour vous.

En hate avec mon dévouement bien profond, res-
pectueux et affectueux.

TANGNEY-MCGINN
HOTELS

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WRITTEN FROM

Des Moines, 19 XII 36

Dear Friend,

even though I am full of the heaviness of Des Moines and of its smoky fog I want to send you a message of greeting and affection to reach you at Christmas. I have spent three queer weeks of hard and interesting work in this dump, the ugliest city I know in America, and one of the ugliest on earth. It seems to be full of unemployed having lost their unemployment, but at any rate it made me understand why people enlist in the U.S. Navy. People are friendly and in love; it keeps them busy, but their food is bad, and their taste for lectures is nearly sadistic. They kept me busy talking for three w hole weeks.

I have at last received rectnly an answer from Gallimard, it is a polite but negative one, though he says he has turned the manuscript to Paulhan, which means that it may be taken in some collections run by Paulhan. I want to see Paulhan as soon as I am inParis, which means in about two weeks (I shall sail from New York on the Normandie Dec 26 and expect to arrive in Paris on the 31, if there is no strike or storm or ether excitement). If Paulhan says no, I shall give it to a Bergerie (subject to your approval) a young publisher who is going big just now.

I shall give you the whole manuscripp at our first meeting.

I am not surprised you were liked by our students, and you found them stimulating. I think that they have their qualities, they do not like lectures, as Americans do, but they like what is inside lecturers, more than Americans do generally.

I was pleased and charmed to hear that our young friends from California were going to print something from you and these two lectures that I like so much. They sent me a nice letter that I shall show you. They are really attractive. I enjoyed much seeing them, and there is really a lot of such young people like them in America; even here I had a gang of four who came two or three times a week to ask me questions about you. And I gave a lecture on your poetry, which was expected to be a flop, but which attracted more people than any of my historical or "general" lectures.

I am glad to come home, first so as to see you again; after so many months, and also because my health has not been good for the last three months. I do not believe there is anything serious with me, but American Middle Western food did not agree with me, and time has come for me to cut down a little bit the physical fatigue. I had too much of it since several years, since 1914 infact.

With my best wishes and deepest affection to you and Alice.

I have just received a card. The geographica/ Historica/ of America. It's fascinating. And if you are so الجميلة، فلماذا ترقصون؟

- And if you are so الجميلة، فلماذا ترقصون؟
- What a relief it was to touch the earth again. And then, too, did you notice that it was for you? Really, that was very kind.

Mademoiselle G. Stein

16. Rue Saint Guillaume, 7e

Le 30 Janvier 1937

Chère Amie,

Pardon de vous écrire à la machine, mais je suis un peu pressé.

Eu deux rendez-vous avec Grasset. Ils aiment le livre mais me demandent si je suis sûr qu'on puisse en vendre plus de 3.000 exemplaires. Je n'en suis pas sûr, bien qu'je le croie. Dans ce cas, ils disent qu'ils ne pourraient prendre le livre que si vous vous engagiez à publier chez eux vos mémoires... Je vous écris donc, mais mon opinion serait plutôt de leur dire non.

En effet, je trouve les combinaisons de ce genre fâcheuses. Je montrer le livre à Labergerie, ce petit éditeur dont je vous ai parlé.

Je serai très heureux d'aller dîner chez vous lundi, mais vous m'excuserez de partir un peu tôt par prudence, car je me couche de bonne heure et j'ai un cours le mardi matin.

Avec mon affection profonde, dévouée, reconnaissante et admirative.

Mademoiselle Stein

16. Rue Saint Guillaume, 7e

Le 24 Mai 1937

Chère Amie,

Je rentre de Londres, ravi de tout ce que j'y ai fait et vu, sans en excepter votre ballet qui est un chef-d'oeuvre, et que les Anglais aiment beaucoup. (On m'en a souvent parlé.) En arrivant, je trouve une lettre d'André Georges que je vous communique, en vous priant de me la renvoyer. Cela devrait aller vite maintenant.

Londres était très agréable avec beaucoup de pluie, peu d'étrangers et beaucoup d'Anglais. Les hotels n'étaient pas trop pleins, et c'était un repos de ne pas avoir ces énormes bus dans toutes les rues. J'ai acheté beaucoup de choses très drôles, et je rapporte des crayons tricolores, et des cravates bleues, avec le portrait du Roi en souvenir du couronnement. A Paris, je trouve un soleil si brillant qu'il me donne un peu le cafard. D'autant plus qu'en mon absence Hub a cassé la voiture neuve, et Marie la plus belle lampe. J'ai l'impression du vieux professeur qui ne peut pas sortir de la classe sans que ses élèves lui brisent tout. Enfin, on réparera la voiture et on achètera une nouvelle lampe. Il est malheureux qu'on ne puisse pas faire de même pour le Gouvernement, car l'état nerveux de Paris reste des plus mauvais.

J'espère que vous avez fait bon voyage et que le Bugey n'a pas changé. Je me promets beaucoup de plaisir à aller vous voir, et je serai bien heureux quand ce mois de juin encombré de visites et d'expositions sera passé.

Avec mon amitié la plus respectueuse et la plus chaleureuse,

Melle Gertrude Stein

16. Rue Saint Guillaume, 7e

Le 23 Juin 1937

Chère Amie,

Nous avons été si occupé à inaugurer les pavillons de l'Exposition, à changer de ministère, et à refuser les invitations à goûter, que nous n'avons pas eu une minute pour faire les choses qui nous font plaisir, c'est-à-dire pour vous écrire.

D'autant plus que j'attends encore l'acceptation définitive de Desclée de Brouwer pour votre livre, bien qu'on m'ait dit que j'allais la recevoir. J'ai récrit hier pour réclamer. Par ailleurs, d'Italie, l'éditeur Einaudi (Via Arcivescovado 7, Torino), m'écrit qu'il voudrait traduire et publier l'Autobiographie d'Alice Tocklas. Je lui ai demandé d'entrer en rapport directement avec vous. Il va publier ma Franc-Maçonnerie, et je peux vous garantir que c'est un très bon éditeur. Je ne peux pas vous garantir qu'il fasse des conditions do-rées aux auteurs...

Paris est assez amusant, mais très fatigant. Il y a beaucoup de Hollandais et de Norvégiens, ainsi que des Américains pauvres, et l'aristocratie de tous les Quimper-Corentins de France, qui viennent voir l'Exposition. Je quitterai cette ville sans trop de regrets vers le 15 Juillet, pour arriver chez vous vers le 18, comme il est convenu. D'ici-là, je vous écrirai, et en tous temps, je vous envoie ma respectueuse affection,

16. Rue Saint Guillaume, 79

June 29 1937

Miss Gertrude Stein,
Bilignin,
par Belley,
(Ain)

Dear Friend-

I have at last heard from Desclees-de-Brower. All the readers have approved of the book, and Maritain in particular. so the thing is up to the financial end of the house. And there it rests, because just now the situation in the book business is ghastly. Since January all but the big houses have seen their sales fall regularly and violently. Before I go I shall try to see Fumet (the editor of the collection) and insist upon a date being given to me for the book. Otherwise things are going on rather nicely.

Mr. Blum has fallen and his enemies wanted him to fall, and also in a way which pleases him. Mr. Chautemps is very glad because he feels he has been vindicated, and his enemies are very glad because they think his fall will be a great fall. The left is happy because they win all the by-elections and the right is excited because they think that disaster cannot be avoided. The exposition is going on nicely, however. The whole thing has been so carefully planned that the work will be continuous. The workmen will be able to begin tearing the thing down on the same day that they have put on the finishing touches.

Paris is full, but mostly with Swedes, Dutch, Roumanians and Arabs. But I don't see many Americans, except your editor Gilbert Harrison who is a nice boy and terribly homesick.

Do kindly let me know if the 18th of July still suits you? I have made all my plans in view of xxx our happy meeting.

Oct 7 1937.

VILLA REALE

MARLIA

TEL. 5468

LUCCA

Dear Friend,

I have been silent for a very long time, because I have been travelling a great deal, and very busy. First I took a trip to Spain and found it quite thrilling; in fact it has been the most interesting trip I have taken for years; it gave me the same impression that, at times, the war gave me, and more particularly the Verdun period. We had a beautiful weather, a perfect welcome and most amusing incidents. Everything was right except the food, that made me kind of sick; I had to take a real rest for a week when I came back. Then I had to go to England for some business and the helth of my sister, that was not very good; and then I had to spend some time in Paris to visit my dentist. It was a very painful week, I lost two teeth and Hub got a cold. But every thing ended well, I got my two teeth back and Hub sailed for America, to spend the winter with his girl-friend.

That being settled and finished I felt the need of a rest and being invited to see my publisher in Italy, (Turin), some archives in Florence, and the contest Peccoblunt in Marlia I decided to do this triple errand. I have found my publisher in very good shape and quite excited about your book, the Florence archives very rich in Ea Fayelette and Jefferson material (they possess the one letter that made Washington sure that Jefferson was yellow, a letter Jefferson had sent to a friend of his in Pisa telling him how much he disapproved of Washington, whose secretary of state he was; the fellow published it in a little local newspaper and it was reprinted five weeks later by the leading Philadelphia newspapers). The countess is also in great shape and the Marlia season is in full bloom, the brightest star being the lovely daughter of your friend Daisy Fellowes, Me de Castéja. As the count has just sold every thing he had in Wall Street and is feeling good. It rains immensely, but the people do not mind it because they play bridge, and I like it because it gives me time to work, prepare my winter lectures and my American trip.

I hope to sail for the U.S. around Oct 27 for just a month. I want to see Mr Roosevelt at a declining star. I am rather proud because I had told my friends that the economic and financial situation was not so good, they had laughed at me, and of course, now, I am too tactful to remind them what I said, but I enjoy it by myself. I am afraid our friend F.A.D.R. will have a typical democratic end-of-second term; he seems even to be taking up the Wilsonian vocabulary and virtuous pacifism.

I'll be back in Paris in five or six days to welcome He
len Simpson, who is coming to inspect the Exhibition, and
to do her fall-shopping. I may sail back with her, as I shall
stay with them in New York.

I do not want to be long out of France, first becau-
se I mean to start writing my La Fayette this winter, se -
cond because I expect the European winter to be more di -
rectly interesting than the American winter, finally becau
se I like my home more and more. And also because I feel
a kind of urge to write a lot this winter. The article I
have written on Spain, and that has been taken at once by
the Revue des Deux Mones, where It will be published next
week, is, I think, the best thing I have written for two
or three years, at any rate, the most readable. I'll send
it to you; it will make a hit of a scandal, I expect but
will put me in very friendly terms with Claudel; think of
it, just now, Claudel is in Spain the most popular French-
man because of his poem he wrote on Spain; I come se -
cond, because of a lecture I gave in San Sebastian. They
asked me to lecture before I left Spain, I said "on what?
France, America, which I know, or yourself, whom I do
not know? -Ourselves, they answered, of course". So I ga-
ve them a lecture on what they had to do now. And
they enjoyed it a lot. They mostly enjoyed what I said a
bout Italy and Germany, they are fed up with both and wish
to find a way to get rid of them.

I hope you are getting less rain in Bilignin than
here, or, I hope, if you are getting as much rain as
you have more ducks. Rain with ducks is very fitting, but
here they have nearly only chicken which look absurd in the
rain, sunbathers which look miserable in the rain, and
fashionable ladies who get sick in the rain.

Kindly convey my best regards to Alice, and believe
me

most affectionately yours.

Mademoiselle G. Stein

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Le 6 Décembre 1937

Chère Amie,

Arrivé de New-York avant-hier, et déjà submergé
d'occupations diverses, je vous envoie ce pneu pour vous
dire mon affection, et que xn l'Amérique attend votre li-
vre avec impatience. Quand je suis parti, il n'était pas
encore paru, mais j'ai entemu dire beaucoup de bien des
fragments publiés par l'Atlantic.

Je vais avoir énormément à faire jusqu'à jeudi,
mais, si cela vous arrangeait, je passerais vous voir vendre-
di entre 5 h. et 7h.

Avec ma profonde et respectueuse affection,

No. 1.

Cher Monsieur,

Je suis bien sensible à votre bonne lettre; aucun
suffrage ne saurait, à mes yeux, avoir le prix de votre ap-
probation. Aussi serais je très heureux si vous m'entiez à exécuter
on votre bienveillante intention et écriviez pour "Apollo",
l'artiele dont vous me parlez.

Recevez, je vous prie, Monsieur, avec tos mes remerciements,
l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus dévoués.

No. 2.

Cher Monsieur,

Votre lettre me touche et m'apporte un encourage-
ment bien précieux. Qu'un esprit comme le votre, qu'un juge-
ment comme le votre s'intéresse à mon oeuvre, voilà de quoi
me donner du courage pour le travail futur et l'impression de
n'avoir pas gaspillé toutes les heures de mon passé.

La suggestion que vous voulez bien faire se semble excel-
lente en tous points. Je serais très heureux si vous pouviez
publier dans Apollo un article sur mon oeuvre.

J'aimerais ne point être limité par mon pauvre français
pour vous dire ma gratitude, mais il me faut m'y résigner, et
vous prier simplement, Monsieur, de bien vouloir agréer l'expres-
dion de ma recompense et celle de mon dévouement bien sincère.

reconnaissant

Do you approve?

ŒUVRE FRANÇAISE DES SECTIONS SANITAIRES AUTOMOBILES DU FRONT

affiliée à la Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires
(Croix Rouge Française)

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COMITÉ D'HONNEUR

Présidente d'Honneur :

S. A. R. la Princesse Sixte de
Bourbon Parme

Membres :

Madame Jacques Allez
Marquise de Biron
Madame Alexis Carrel
Comtesse René de Chambrun
Madame Jean Chiappe
Madame P. David Weill
Madame Jean Dupuy
Comtesse Elie de Gaigneron
Madame Martin de German Ribon
Comtesse Armand de Gontaut Biron
Générale Gouzil
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Madame Paul Guillaume
Madame la Duchesse d'Harcourt
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Mrs William Morgan
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Madame Anténor Patino
Madame François Piétri
Madame Emmita Rodriguez
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Madame Walch Amsler

COMITÉ de PROPAGANDE

Madame la duchesse d'Ayen
Comtesse de Cossé Brissac
Madame Philippe Davey
Madame Frank Jay Gould
M. Lopez Willshaw
Marquise de Piolenc
M. Marcel Prévost, de l'Académie Française
Madame Jacques Quellennec
Docteur A. Hamilton Rice
M. Miguel de Yturbe

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SOUS LE HAUT PATRONAGE DE :

Monsieur E. DALADIER
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Ministre de la Défense Nationale et des Affaires Etrangères

Madame la Maréchale JOFFRE
Madame la Générale GAMELIN - Madame la Générale GEORGES

Présidente : Madame Horace de Carbuccia

Vice-Présidents : Comte Etienne de Beaumont

M. Bernard Fay, professeur au Collège de France

Secrétaire Générale à la Propagande : Comtesse Jean de Beaumont.

Secrétaire Générale du Comité : Madame Henry Torrès

Trésorier : M. Jean Gillet, Avoué près le Tribunal de la Seine

Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur

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Paris, le 24 novembre 1939

L'Oeuvre Française des Sections Sanitaires Automobiles du Front" remettra officiellement ses 40 premières voitures (2 sections) avant leur départ pour le Front le lundi 27 novembre.

Elles seront exposées de 14 à 16 h;
II rue Masseran, et nous serions très heureux que vous nous fassiez l'honneur de venir les voir.

S. A. E.T.L.O.P. • PARIS

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Paris, le II Décembre 1939.

Monsieur Bernard FAY,
Professeur au Collège de France
Vice-Président aux Sections Sanitaires Automobiles du Front.

à Mademoiselle Gertrude STEIN
Bilignin par Belley, Ain.

Chère Amie,

Je me suis occupé de votre Foyer. La S.S.B.M.
est toute disposée à vous aider si vous voulez bien vous
adresser à sa Présidente de Belley, Mademoiselle de
BOISSIEU, 24 Rue des Cordeliers à Belley.

Mei-même je vais tacher de vous faire envoyer
des jeux et des livres.

J'ai bien reçu votre livre qui est ravissant
et qui m'enchante. Quand nous nous verrons je vous en par-
lerai d'avantage car c'est lui qui me consolera dans les lon-
gues heures de cet hiver.

Je vous redis mon affectueux dévouement

16, Rue Saint Guillaume. 7e

Mademoiselle G. Stein

Le 1er Mars 1940

Chère Gertrude,

Je ne vous ai pas remerciée plus tôt de votre lettre parce que j'ai été aux armées ces temps-ci, pour y organiser les bibliothèques boulantes que nous y envoyons. Mais votre lettre m'a beaucoup intéressé et je suis en train d'agiter la Croix-Rouge pour qu'on vous envoie des jeux, des livres, etc.. etc..

Paris est assez triste, mais pas emuyeux. Ces jours-ci, je vais assister à un grand déjeuner chez Beaumont où il y aura côte à côte Picasso et Lequerica. Je pense que celles manquera pas de pittoresque et je sais que les deux hommes sont tout prêts à s'embrasser. Si cela continue, il faudra aller vivre à la campagne parce qu'à Paris, c'est impossible d'avoir des épinards, des artichauts et les autres choses que j'aime. Aussi je commence à planter mon jardin de Luceau, et je compte bien y passer une partie de l'été.

Les nouvelles que je reçois d'Amérique me font espérer que Roosevelt ne sera pas candidat. Cela vaudrait beaucoup mieux pour tout le monde. J'ai pourtant peur que le parti républicain ne sache pas trouver de bon candidat. Pourquoi ne seriez-vous pas candidat ? Les hommes ont fait tant de bêtises que c'est bien le tour des femmes.

Toute mon amitié à Alice, et mon fidèle souvenir,

ARCEMENTNE-TYDENE ACGENT

Castelnau de Bretenoux,
le 18 VIII 41.

Dear Gertrude,

I take the opportunity of a short inspection I am making of my books in the southern part of France to send you this message. I miss you a lot and I should love to hear from you. My own life is very full and very fruitful; I do a lot of things that are not always pleasant, but are always interesting and I see a lot of people who are polite and picturesque. I am also a very good uncle with 32 nephews and nieces, four of them are handsome and two are witty (age 7 and 6). I have finished putting into shape my country house and it is awfully nice, I am planting a lot of potatoes, cauliflowers, artichokes (most of the planting is already done of course). The ground is good, the artichokes have already produced one statue of the 15th century and one of the 13th. The brussels sprouts unfortunately have all been eaten by wild rabbits.

I am writing a good deal, my last article in the August issue of the N.R.F. I shall try to send to you. I enjoyed writing it. Otherwise I am happy as a historian, because we are living in a very historical time and it is exceedingly stimulating to dream of our time while living it (maybe the dreaming is better than the living). As I see also a good many people in Vichy and in Paris my memoirs will be better read good reading. The Marshall is very nice to me and they say he will appoint me as a Minister soon. I think they are wrong, he Marshall would not like to dismiss me and he dismisses ALL his ministers. So I feel very confident that I'll stay at the B.N. Where I fit very well and which I like.

My love to Alice and to you.

Just got a nice letter from Fanny, She sends her love to you.

Vichy, le 7 Févr ier 1942

Mademoiselle Gertrude STEN

à BILIGNIN par BELLEY

(Ain)

C hère Gertrude,

J'ai bien re çu votre lettre et j'ai bien
fait vos commissions.

A PAR IS, tout va bien. L'appartement est
intact, et le Gérant prend toutes les précautions.
Pour le moment, il estime superflu de déplacer
quoique ce soit. Je vais le revoir afin de m'assu-
rer qu'il ne se trompe pas.

Pour la traduction, je n'ai point encore eu
l'occasion d'en parler e n détail avec le Maréchal,
mais en gros, l'idée lui plaît.

Je vous e nvoie ce mot en grande hâte, car j'ai
beaucoup de travail en ce moment ci, et j'espère
toujours, quant arrivera le printemps, aller vous
voir.

Recevez, Chère G ertrude, l'expre ssion de mon
plus affectueux souvenir.

Vichy, le 17 Avril 1942

Mademoiselle Gertrude STEIN

BILIGNIN par BELEY

(Ain)

Chère Gertrude,

Mille mercis de votre lettre et de la lettre de
YALE. L'un et l'autre m'ont fait le plus vif plaisir.
J'aimerais parler avec vous de tout cela et j'espère le
faire, car je dois aller faire une conférence à CHAMBERY
et une à AIX le 4 5 ou 6 Mai.

Je tâcherai d'avoir assez d'essence pour vous rendre
visite.

J'ai été me reposer huit jours pour Pâques à la
campagne où j'ai trouvé tout si joli qu'il m'a fallu
un gros effort pour revenir à PARIS.

Je vous envoie ma plus profonde et ma plus fidèle
affection.

Vichy, le 1er Mai 1942

Mademoiselle S T E I N
à BILIGNIN par BELEY
(Ain)

Chère Gertrude,

Je vous envoie ce mot en hâte, pour vous dire que
je ferai l'impossible pour passer vous voir lundi. Je fais
une conférence lundi soir à ANNECY et je vais tâcher d'aller
en auto de LYON à ANNECY, afin de m'arrêter chez vous ne
fut-ce qu'un instant. La grande question est l'essence
car à l'heure actuelle je n'en ai pas, si donc vous ne me
voyez pas c'est que je n'aurai pas pu en trouver.

Si j'en trouve je vous écrirai.

Je vais très bien, mais j'ai très froid.

Je vous envoie mon plus affectueux souvenir.

ÉTAT FRANÇAIS
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE

58 RUE DE RICHELIEU PARIS 2e · TÉL. RICHELIEU 00-06

ADMINISTRATION GÉNÉRALE

PARIS, LE 15 octobre 1943

RÉFÉRENCE

Madame Gertrude STEIN

Ma chère Gertrude,

Cela vous irait-il que je passe
vous voir jeudi, vendredi et samedi, 21, 22 et
23 octobre. J'arriverai par le train de Lyon
jeudi soir à 20 h. 45. Je passerai avec vous
toute la journée du vendredi et je repartirai
dans la journée du samedi pour Lyon où je dois
être dimanche.

Je serais si heureux de vous
revoir vous et Alice. Il y a tant de choses
à vous dire. J'ai même un petit bouquin à vous
apporter.

Toute mon affection,

Paris, le 16 octobre 1943

Mademoiselle Gertrude STEIN

Chère Gertrude,

Je vous confirme que, sauf
contre-ordre, je pourrai arriver chez vous
par le train de 20 h. 45, le jeudi 21 octobre.

Je pourrai rester jusqu'au sa-
medi matin et cela me fera grand plaisir de vous
voir.

Toute mon affection,

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IDÉALE
POUR TEINDRE SOI-MÊME TOUS TISSUS

5 rue Christine Paris

14 mars 1946

Maitre Chresteil
Avocat à la Cour
55 avenue Kleber
Paris

Maitre:

En entrant à Paris de la campagne le quinze decembre dix-neuf cent
quarante quatre j'i retrouvé toute ma collection de tableaux et de
dessins etaient intacte. A mon arrivée Picasso est venu à l'apparte-
ment et nous avons pleuré ensemble de retrouver tout les tableaux
et tout les dessins qui sont pour nous deux les plus vifs souvenirs
de notre jeunesse. C'était pour nous un miracle et Picasso m'a dit
"oui, c'est un miracle et un miracle grace à Bernard Faÿ. On m'a
fait savoir que le gestapo étaient chez vous et je me suis presi-
pité de trouver Bernard Faÿ pour lui raconter ce que c'est arrivé.
Le clendemain j'ai recu une lettre de Faÿ m'assurant que tout était
arranger, que rien a été enlevé de chez vous. Je garde cette lettre
car nous lui devons une grande reconnaissance, tout nous deux."

Pendant le dixhuit ans que je connais Bernard Faÿ nous avons souvent
discuté sur ses deux passions d'abord la France et puis l'Amerique.
Il a toujours été fidèle à ses deux pays.

Au début de dixneuf cent quarant deux, apres que les Etats Unis a
declaré la guerre, Bernard Faÿ ma fait savoir qu'un de ses secre-
taire Americains c'est engagé dans l'armée Americaine et combien il
etait fier de cette geste.

Pendant toute les années de notre amitié nous avons beaucoup discuté
sur toutes sortes de sujets. Nous tenions des opinions assez differ-
entes; Bernard Faÿ était plustot conservateur , moi radical, mais
nous etions toujours d'accord sur les relations franco-americaines.Je
suis très sure que Bernard Fay" avait toujours un vraie loyauté pour
mon pays; c'est impossible a croire que jamais il avait un autre sen-
timent pour l'Amerique.

En Septembre quarant-trois Bernard Faÿ passait deux jours a la maison
avec nous a la campagne. Il croyait absolument au débarquement de
l'armée americaine. J'étais un peu inquiète sur mon pays mais il m'as-
suré que le débarquement se fera prochainement et que six semaines
plus tard Paris sera liberé. Et puis il a ajouté, "que cela sera magni-
fique de voir leur arrivée." Et puis il m'a dit sa fierté d'avoir pu
garder intacts les tresors de la Bibliotheque Nationale et que chaque
nuit il se disait, "ils sont encore tous là, que cela soit ainsi demain
soir et juaqu'au bout."

Je sais que Bernard Faÿ n'a jamais aimé ni les Allemands ni l'Allemagne.
Pendant notre longue amitié j'étais très souvent chez lui et je n'y ai
jamais rencontré parmi le monde universitaire et literaire de tout les

pays du monde qu'il recevait un seul allemand. Il n'avait aucune
Sympathie pour cette race.

Bernard Faÿ n'a jamais cessé de travailler pour la France. Je ne sais
pas si on sait en France ce qu'il a fait pour son pays aux Etats-Unis.
C'était pas seulement des livres de Bernard Faÿ sur les relations franco-
americaines qui influencaient un grand public (tres grands tirage ) mais
son amour pour la France qu'il exprimait dans ses conferences aux universités

les plus diverses (d'harvard jusqu'au juniversités departmentales dans le
mord, le sud et le centre des Etats-Unis. A quel point qu'un de ses eleves
a exprimé sa reconnaisance a la France en faisant appeler une place dans
une des grandes villes apres un héro Francais.

My dear Bernard,

I have just got it and have just finished it, Roosevelt and his America, and I have been immensely interested in it. The single finest portrait in the book is Coolidge, you really got the soul of Coolidge without exasperation without any emphasis, and something in it is very profound, and very American New England. I was very touched by it. The whole book holds together. I do a little feel that you do not quite get the soul of the Republican party between Lincoln and McKinley when they really had presidential timber, you have seem it only since the timber has turned into dead wood, but that we will talk about in September. The whole part about America as different from England is beautifully done, the relation between Smith and Roosevelt very fine, you know Cook my friend used always to say about his French wife, and his American mother and sisters. My mother and sisters rise wonderfully to an occasion but Jeanne my French wife sees to it that the occasion does not arise. I am delighted about the book and it will have an immense success all over the country of France, you are getting to be the only person anybody believes about America. I judge that from what all kinds of people tell me here and they are right you are the only one that knows anything about it and you know a lot about it and you tell it and I am so pleased that it is you that know it. It is a hot---