Honfleur (Calvados)

Autograph letter dated and signed by Félix Vallotton, 17 lines in black ink.
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
With painters Henri Lebasque and René Piot, Félix Vallotton traveled from June 7 to 23, 1917 to Champagne and Argonne to make sketches and develop his ideas for paintings. Despite difficulties and delays of which he complains, he would manage to propose four of his canvases to the Exhibition of War Painters organized by the Army Museum: "Ruins at Souain", "The Church of Souain in Silhouette and Crater at Souain, Evening", "The Bolante Plateau, the Gruerie Wood, the Paris Kiln", "Fire on the First Boche Lines and Senegalese Soldiers at Camp Bailly"
Subject to very brief deadlines by the French State, Félix Vallotton rails against the lack of time granted to him: "Lebasque me dit que le délai d'envoi expire le 20 de ce mois; C'est bien court ! N'y aurait-il pas moyen de prolonger un peu..." (Lebasque tells me that the submission deadline expires on the 20th of this month; That's very short! Wouldn't there be a way to extend it a little...)
because his canvases are not quite finished: "J'ai en train plusieurs toiles et il faut qu'elles sèchent, et les envoyer, et encadrer. S'il est possible de gagner ne fut-ce que quelques jours cela me rendrait grand service..." (I have several canvases in progress and they need to dry, and be sent, and framed. If it's possible to gain even just a few days that would be of great service to me...)

Autograph letter signed addressed to a journalist friend at Figaro illustré, 28 lines in black ink.
Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion, a lack to upper corner of the letter without any damage to the text.
Alphonse Allais must do a favor for his friend: "Un peu de patience, mon cher Abel, un peu de patience. Sitôt rentré à Paris, ma première démarche sera pour ton parapluie que je choisirai en soir gorge-pigeon et manche d'argent." (A little patience, my dear Abel, a little patience. As soon as I return to Paris, my first errand will be for your umbrella which I will choose in pigeon-throat evening silk with a silver handle.); he therefore also allows himself to solicit the kindness of his correspondent: "Et bien, envoie-moi le n° du Figaro illustré d'il y a un mois ou deux, où il y avait des choses de Toulouse-Lautrec..." (Well then, send me the issue of Figaro illustré from a month or two ago, where there were things by Toulouse-Lautrec...)
He concludes his letter with a sententious: "Donne-moi ta main loyale que je la serre. Ton Alphonse Allais... Bonjour aux amis." (Give me your loyal hand so I may shake it. Your Alphonse Allais... Greetings to friends.)

Remarkable autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, publisher of Les Fleurs du Mal, dated 28 February 1859 and written in Honfleur. 64 lines in black ink, some passages underlined, housed in a modern black half-morocco folder.

Baudelaire appears preoccupied with the “ Sainte-Beuve/Babou affair,” one of the many controversies following the Fleurs du Mal trial, in which the writer Hippolyte Babou accused Sainte-Beuve of failing to defend Baudelaire during the proceedings.
Excerpts from this letter were quoted by Marcel Proust in his celebrated Contre Sainte-Beuve, where he lamented Sainte-Beuve’s cowardice during the trial of Les Fleurs du Mal and the undue esteem Baudelaire continued to show him.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autograph signed by Paol Queinnec in Breton.
Preface by Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec.
Pleasant copy.

First edition in French for which there were no large paper copies.
Preface by Henry Miller.
Autograph inscription signed and dated from Henry Miller to a friend.