19 - BRETON, André (1896–1966).

BRETON, André (1896–1966). Autograph letter signed “André Breton,” Avignon, March 27, 1930, to René GAFFÉ in Brussels; 1 page, in-8 format, address on the back (postcard-letter). Note: To the collector René GAFFÉ (1887–1968), recalling Marcel PROUST. Breton sold his collection of *L’Ymagier* [a literary journal founded by Remy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry] to Gaffé, but was very upset by Gaffé’s remark: “Are you sure there are eight issues? That’s not what the bookseller who sold me this collection told me; he assured me he’d obtained it directly from JARRY himself.” Jacques DOUCET had searched in vain for this collection. If Gaffé regrets this purchase, let him tell him so. “The two letters from PROUST concern the follow-up he intended to give to our request for collaboration with ‘Littérature’ at a time when that publication was being enriched (?) by the names of Valéry, Gide, Fargue, Apollinaire, Jacob, Larbaud, etc. I therefore believe they would be better suited to a collection from the first series of that journal.” He does not have a copy available “of the deluxe edition of *Les Champs magnétiques* (China and Holland). “The kind reproaches Proust directs at me regarding the corrections to one of his books are only very partially justified. In truth, I had been given only one out of two proofs to review, hence the scandalous errata in *Guermantes*”…