174 - ELUARD, Paul.

ELUARD, Paul. LAS. [Dada Manifesto]. Paris, September 21, 1920. Autograph letter to Frédéric Lefèvre, Paris, September 21, 1920. 1 p. In-8 (upper left corner missing), envelope preserved. Eluard notes, “I will run your errand for Aragon and Picabia today. As for Morand, he is not in Paris and I do not have his address.” He goes on to provide a bibliographic reference (F. S. Flint, *Some French Poets of To-Day*. *Monthly Chapbook*, Vol. 1, No. 4, The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1919) and the bookstore where his correspondent can purchase the book. Frédéric Lefèvre (1889–1949), writer, editor-in-chief of *Nouvelles Littéraires* (1922–1949), and literary critic. He continues, “Are you familiar with Tzara’s 1918 Dada Manifesto, the most valuable of them all? You could read it at the Sans Pareil, since all issues of *Dada* must be out of print.” The 1918 Dada Manifesto was read during a performance on July 23, 1918, at the Zunfthaus in der Meise in Zurich. Revised and republished along with six other manifestos, it is intended as an anti-manifesto. “Its aim is polemical: ‘I destroy the drawers of the brain and those of social organization.’ Tzara rejects en masse the state, the family, religion, and the academies ” (Abastado, Cl. “The ‘Dada Manifesto 1918’: A Revolving Door.” In: Littérature, no. 39, 1980. Manifestos. pp. 39–46). DADAISM