Lettre autographe signée adressée à Arnost Budik

Autograph letter signed by Roger Caillois addressed to Arnost Budik; one page written in black ink on a sheet of tissue paper. Envelope included.
Some punch holes in the margin of the letter and envelope, not affecting the text, as well as some folds inherent to the folding of the missive.
Roger Caillois thanks the Czech writer for the "issues of Gravida that [he] was kind enough to send [him]". Arnost Budik was indeed part of the editorial committee of this Belgian surrealist magazine and seems to have solicited a contribution from Caillois: "Please find enclosed a text that I have just completed." Caillois was alongside the surrealists only very briefly from 1932 to 1935 and here seems to apologize for this distancing: "Surrealism never much appreciated descriptive-meditative poetry where I believed, later, to find my path. So, if the text does not suit you, have no qualms about returning it to me quite simply. I would understand very well."