CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Louis-Ferdinand). Set of 3 signed autograph letters. 1950. - Autograph letter "LFC" [to his lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen]. [Klarskovgaard near Korsør, Denmark], "le 23" [March 1950]. "Dear Master, oh what a misfortune it is to have to deal with two emperors! Two absolutes! Two tzars! What to do, what to whisper between Caesar and Pompey! Between Thorwald the Infallible and Ricard Cromwell? At last, puny, untouchable, stinking, unworthy, infinite, I breathe a little whisper... Mind the cupboards! Placards de la Bonbonnière [allusion to the French ambassador to Denmark, Guy Girard de Charbonnières]! There'll never be enough of them. And there you have it! The gaffe has been committed. Surely you were waiting for this very humble suggestion to forbid the carpenter to build any of them! Closet! The examining magistrate who issued the warrant against me in 1944 was Mr Zoussman, examining magistrate at the Seine Court of Justice. Just in case, after these infinite mandarino-grotesco-juridical (and above all lazy!) precautions, the divine Danish justice would like to write the little explanatory note we're asking for... Que Naud demande [his French lawyer Albert Naud]... et le pape! Your very friendly and thoughtful LFC" (3 pp. large folio, a few notes and red pencil lines). - Autograph letter signed "LFC" [to his father-in-law Jules Almansor]. Klarskovgaard, probably June 1950]. "Dear friend, a thousand thanks for your very kind offer of help. I'm so used to pulling on the rope that I manage with almost nothing for myself. For Lucette [Lucette Almansor, Céline's wife] my expenses are strawberries, and cabs when I'm absolutely on my knees. 35 kil. of travel a day, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., and often I return in the evening at midnight. I'll tell you when I'm absolutely at the end of my tether. We've sold everything, so I'll be okay for a while. I'll tell you how and from whom I can get the money. Oh, not at all through Mikkelsen [Thorvald Mikkelsen, Céline's Danish lawyer], who would stifle everything! "On account!" Never by MIKKELSEN; (BETWEEN US!) HE'S A SUPER NORMAND RAPACE (GENEROUS IN HIS TIME!). Very delicate handling! And we owe him everything!..." (one p. 3/4 large folio). - Autograph letter signed "Destou." [to his father-in-law Jules Almansor]. [Klarskovgaard], "August 31" [1950]. "You are about to receive a visit from Knud Ottersrom, Korsor's (only) pharmacist, and by a miracle, a very old friend, delicate, very honest, very scrupulous. He studied in Paris [an art lover, he had met Céline in Gen-Paul's studio in the 1930s, and helped him in Denmark with fund transfers]... He is the only person we can count on in our icy arch-country. I would ask you to give him everything you have available for us, which you will receive from Pierre Monnier (whom I am stimulating) [an admirer of Céline, who would become a publisher and play a major role in Céline's return to the French literary scene]. Because I haven't touched anything yet from the Daragnès-"Pasteur" circuit? Ah, you know that cash is a diabolical temptation... I don't think I've been robbed yet (for the 100th time) on that front, but... A thousand thanks and affectionate thoughts..." (2 pp. 2/3 large folio). ATTACHED: ALMANSOR (Lucette). 4 autograph letters signed to her father Jules Almansor and mother-in-law Fanny de Azpeitia. [Klarskovgaard], April-June 1951, [and Menton, ca. August 1951]. Intimate letters in which she talks about Céline, their pets, their imminent and then actual return to France, etc.