COLETTE GABRIELLE SIDONIE (1873-1954)
Autumn, autograph manuscript; 7 pages in-4 in ink on blue paper, numerous erasures and corrections.
Text published in the complete works under the title
Trésors épars.
"Will you put in reserve the dark leather-clad pears, which winter unfeelingly and sometimes tenderly, all honey in March? Essays, worship of what the generous earth spreads for us in the grass" ...
An autograph letter dated September 26, 48 signed by
Maurice Goudeket, 1 1/2 page in-4, in which Colette's husband specifies to Léon Barthou, owner of the manuscript Automne, that it is not conceivable that Barthou will publish it is attached.
A typed correspondence relating to this exchange is attached.
