Guy DES CARS

Autograph letter dated and signed by Guy Des Cars (34 lines in blue ink from Nice, on letterhead of the newspaper l'Alerte, weekly of French renewal) to a fellow writer about his work soon to be completed but also about the omnipresence of politics in the press to the detriment of other subjects, particularly literary ones.
Crease marks inherent to folding for mailing.
Guy Des Cars finally breaks his epistolary silence after having been ill: "... je me suis installé dans un vieux mas provençal, rôti par le soleil à Cagnes-sur-mer..." ["... I have settled in an old Provençal farmhouse, roasted by the sun in Cagnes-sur-mer..."] in order to let it be

Autograph letter dated and signed by Guy Des Cars (38 lines in black ink from the Hotel Le Gray d'Albion in Cannes) to Léon Daudet concerning the publication of his first work "L'officier sans nom".
Traces of folding inherent to postal delivery, two annotations in blue and red pencil probably in Léon Daudet's hand.
Guy Des Cars asks Léon Daudet, journalist for the monarchist and Vichy daily Action Française, to write an article reviewing his first work "L'officier sans nom": "... peut-être le premier paru en zone libre sur la guerre..." ["... perhaps the first published in the free zone about the war..."]
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