Roger de BEAUVOIR

Rare first edition.

Some foxing, spine slightly cocked.

Autograph letter signed by Roger de Beauvoir. One page in black ink on a bifolium of blue paper.
Discrete folds inherent to the mailing.
The writer and chronicler is preparing his Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars, the immense actress who counted among his intimates. In this letter he invites his correspondent to go to the actress's residence with Alexandre Dumas to study her correspondence.

"Mon cher ami,
Hier soir à cinq heures j'ai appris une nouvelle si triste qu'elle a influé subitement sur ma santé ; j'ai combattu vainement cette impression, on m'a tant tourné le sang que je viens d'app