Yvette GUILBERT. Set of 9 autograph letters signed "Yvette" or "Yvette Guilbert". Four are addressed to her friend the writer Charles Morice, two on the letterhead of 26 bd Berthier, one from the Hôtel Bristol in Vienne, in which she talks about the joint organization of conferences for which she has ordered "a pulpit". "As for preachers (whom I wish to name: "Les Conseillers du cœur"), they will have a large place in my programs. I want them to be philosophically interesting, pleasantly serious, pleasantly tender, in short, a rosary of all kinds! And then I have an idea of 'public confessions' that I'll tell you about" "Our concerts in Budapest as here were real sumptuosities...and what understanding of the serious things said Rasoir in Paris...ah! what comfort". The last letter is on the letterhead of the Grand Hotel in Marienbad. A signed autograph letter is addressed to Laurent Tailhade in March 1868, with stamped envelope. "Ah! si vous vouliez rimer une belle satire sur la Veulerie moderne...comme je la dirais avec amour! - But there you are, you don't want to! And yet all the literary people tell me to turn to you to inaugurate the new era of song. Ah, if you wanted! what great popular successes we'd both have! Another, on the letterhead of the Velpau Nursing Home, dated February 28, 1915, informs us that she had fallen seriously ill and undergone a serious operation. And three other letters, including two addressed to a friend, one dated October 14, 1898. Together, these letters comprise 16 in-8 pages and one in-4 page, all written in brown ink.