Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 3 L.A.S. "LFC" (the last unsigned), [June-December 1949], to his friend the publisher Jean-Gabriel Daragnès; 6½, 1½ and 1½pages in-fol. June or July] 25. Wants to repay Jacques Deval (1810 crowns): "He very kindly and spontaneously offered me this sum but precisely I want to repay him, such kindnesses are worth a thousand times their price!" He complains about Mikkelsen's avarice, which turns into "Harpagonism", but admits that he saved his life. "Le Parquet gondole comme une vieille péniche crevée il me semble. But I don't see Amnesty anywhere near! [...] I've been on the run for 9 years! Tired as hell! [...] It's not hot here. And no water either. We fetch the buckets from the sea. Everything's seawater. 40 liters of fresh water a week"... Then about Gen Paul and his "turlupinades [...] he's delirious - more drunk with ingratitude than with alcohol, white or red"... He ends by talking about Spanish dance records, which he had Bonabel and Coquillaud [Le Vigan] fetch for Lucette. 25th [July]. He is "without news from Frémanger and without Voyage! It's a fire! but I have nothing better". He asks Daragnès to give a Danish pharmacist, "a very discreet friend [...] 100,000 francs from my account. He will pay me here the counterpart in crowns". Jacques Deval was to come and see him: "Oh with Jacques Deval it's Chinese and hysterical. He hasn't written me anything - and it's all a fuss to get to Copenhagen. You know theater people!"... [December], on Raoul Nordling, who has just received the military medal: "Military glory is beautiful, Raoul! I wrote to him to congratulate him! I told him that after the next war, at this rate, he'd have the military medal like me, like Pétain, but I still have priority. I'm entitled to his salute - Nov. 1914! Raoul is late! I even get Pétain's salute! Oh, the drunkard gets pitied everywhere. He was tortured because of me"...