90 - LOUŸS, Pierre (1870–1925).

LOUŸS, Pierre (1870–1925). Autograph letter signed “Pierre Louÿs,” [February 16], to Tristan BERNARD; 4 pages, small in-4 format, with envelope. An amusing letter. Note: “Tristan Bernard, are you buying my books—publicly? Might the poor, naive little crowd around you believe that in the 19th century I mistook Bernard for Renard? And this is going to be printed? You’ll pay for this. ” He asks him for his *Complete Plays*, which he has “not yet finished using to nourish the young souls who have read nothing,” and *The Scalp Hunter*: “Back then, you also wrote: ‘And Camille Doucet with his Aeschylean skull!’ You were more in the habit of hunting the bald, and you left me with a head of hair as thick as your illustrious beard. But I cannot console myself for having lost *The Scalp Hunter*. […] And swear to me that you will never buy me again”… Attached is an early, unsigned version of this letter.