WILLY. 6 L.A.S, 1896- 1900, to Félix Jeantet; 8pages in-8, 5 envelopes. 1896. His wife [Colette] is seriously ill and he has all the trouble in the world to keep her from going out; she is not cured; "(Entre nous c'est un potin gossin venimeux, et faux, de cette vieille Caillavet, bas-bleu hysterique, qui l'a fichue dans cet état. Some day, I'll tell you all about it". He sends her clippings and articles for her journal [la Revue hebdomadaire]. August 1899. Leaves for Bayreuth: "I agree with you that snitches are less repulsive than youtres and Protestants: this is probably because Protestants and youtres are more snitches than professional snitches". August 21, 1900: he has just reread Jeantet's Les Amours d'un prince naïf and sends him his novel for the Revue, Amour Astral: "It's a kind of fin de siècle revue (oh! the stupid word!) where the personalities of the thinking and aestheticizing world parade, pseudonymized, in new, exact settings. [...] The hero is a good old young man, still quite ingenuous. [...] The heroine, a creature forged from the elements (according to the theory of certain hermeticists), is illusion, and also irony, personified in the eternal feminine"... A press clipping from L'Ouvreuse (1905) is enclosed.