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Pierre LOUŸS and CURNONSKY. Approx. 108 L.A.S. or L.A. (including some twenty postcards) from Curnonsky, and 18 L.A.S. or L.A. from Louÿs, 1901-1919 and s.d.; approx. 280pages in various formats, numerous envelopes and addresses. Important literary, friendly, whimsical and libertine correspondence between the two writers. We can only give a brief overview here, with a few significant extracts.Pierre Louÿs. December 15, 1909: "Monseigneur I read with extreme pleasure the account of Your Highness's admirable trip to Cambodia, and I am deeply touched that she was kind enough to make me a gift of it. La Ville au Bois Dormant is a delightful book in which every line reveals the union of two quintessentially French qualities: courage and good humor. This journey seems to be the exact realization of a Jules Verne novel that enthralled my childhood, La Maison à Vapeur; but unlike the novelist, who is always anxious about the perils his characters will run into, Your Highness wanted to enjoy the tour de force she was accomplishing. Turning a page, I had the charming surprise of finding an allusion to another novel, which, although it had the honor of being read by the Dauphin of France, was not written ad usum Delphini. Your Highness speaks of idle kings at a time when she has just proved that idle kings are not in her family"... - 1911 (on a leaflet from the Société pour la Propagation de l'Incinération, annotated: "Jamais! Never! J'aie trop les vers!"), request, for the Quat'z Arts ball, for a "costume designer where a sixteen-year-old girl can buy a pretty nude woman's costume. It's for a Presbyterian". - Sunday. "Curnonsky, when you've finished interviewing Dieu le Père on the old pucelage on boulevard Osman, send me three autographed lines to tell me if you've managed to meet Mr Machin [...] Twenty breathless editors are waiting for him to make up his mind"... - "If a voice from On High advised you to come and see me, it would be proof of the existence of God. Yes, that's right, it seems that the señorita Ferrer dresses to dance naked. We could give her to the little Prince of Wales with these strong words: 'Gabydeslysm is the enemy!'"... - Tuesday evening. "Chingashkook, famous Redskin man, had two attributes: Laughter and Silence. Chingashkook's "silent laughter" equals Curnonsky's "cheerful silence""... - Amusing invitation to lunch with André Lebey, signed "Amable Tastu"; free quatrains, signed "Taxis, pasteur" and "Régina Badet"; facetious first page of "Le Dernier des Curnonskys, grand roman inédit par René Doumic de l'Académie Française"...; commented postcards... Curnonsky. - July 26 [1901], hilarious account of an interview with a serialist: "Dear Master, This very morning, up before dawn as usual, dressed in a light blue tuxedo open over a smart vest with matt gold buttons and the most correct black and white checked pants, I presented myself according to your advice (and on your recommendation) to the director of the important Usine à feuilletons, whose address you gave me. I prefer to tell you right away that only your imminent reception at the Académie des Sciences (Anthropology section) will enable me to forget the one I suffered at the hands of this savage worm, which I have no hesitation in describing as unbridled soldiery! On the name of King Dubut, which you had ordered me to take, he indulged, bound hand and foot, in the crudest jokes, pretending (get off your horse!) to confuse me sometimes with our great Bubu de Laforest, sometimes with a certain Dubut from Montparnasse, whose unavowable existence I confess to being unaware of!"... etc. - Hanoi January 22, 1903: on his way down the Red River in Toulet's company, he heard La Femme et le Pantin praised; as for Tonkin, "life is easy and gentle, between opium pipes and unpretentious chats. General ideas are shunned like Asiatic cholera. The ladies are yellow, but subject to the most reprehensible fantasies, and you have to love them, just out of childhood (because jaundice only lasts for so long). The Annamites seem to me ironic and pleasantly rossery"... - March 14 [1904]. "I sent your delightful "Nouvelle à la main" to the Figaro immediately, whose somewhat transparent discretion earned me the compliments of the editorial secretary. He would, however, have preferred a little dialogue between Onanists, which would have better justified the general title of the column... but he is a little afraid of some outburst of prudery from certain readers prov.