SOMMIÈRES LE QUINZE

decembre

DEAR HENRY A QUICK
BULLETIN OF NEWS FOR
XMAS ACCOMPANIED BY A
HOME MADE EPFS LETTER
HEAD TO REST YOUR EYE.
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE
GREAT EPFS NOW HAS TWO
HUGE WATER COLOURS
HANGING IN THE WOMENS
SECTION OF THE CASERNES
AT VERSAILLES ? HE GAVE
THEM TO LITTLE ANNIE
VERNEUIL FOR WHOM I WRO
A COUPLE OF FINE LITTLE
NUMBERS ' Blonde
Cascadeur' and 'Annie
la Mome '. She got fed
up with singing and
joined the army and is
now a serjeant at the
Headquarters !

Little Buttons sends her
love for Xmas. She has
re emerged briefly and
is just as mischevious
as ever abd still very
pretty ; what luck to
tumble into her arms on
a wet saturday . She
used to sign her lettr

but now with
maturity just round
the corner and a small
illegitimate child on
her hands she signs

which is perhaps
more realistic. I tell
her that if ever she
wants to be a perfect
mistress she should
sign thus

Ghislaine is fixing
up a flat in Paris. I
think with some regrets
but really we were not
suited -- her notion of
a foyer was the salle
des départs a Orly. She

wore me out with her

gambols and expense. What a huge error of judgement -- and costly too. Just reading Brassai's solid documented and thoughtful book about you and incidentally us. What he brings out so well is that our friendship and admiration for each other was so firm that it withstood every kind of harsh test like changing ideas, chqnging notions of good and bad writing, It was unique in that; down deep we firmly believed in each other as artists even when being critical and feeling that the other had taken fausse route. The book is good and has carefully followed your traces ; the bit I was lucky enuf to live seems to me quite accurate and done with insight and kindness. What en epoch to live through ... Now all that is left is senile seniority and ennui. Can we throb to Mailer and Roth ? I cant . Bellow yes. This is where one feels the arteries getting hard. HAPPY NEW YEAR HENRY. From Larry