Lettre autographe signée adressée à Dominique Aury

Autograph letter signed by Roger Caillois addressed to Dominique Aury; one page on a leaf written in blue ballpoint pen.
Interesting letter concerning the article "Mémoire interlope" which would appear in issue 185 of the sixteenth year (May 1968) of the Nouvelle Revue Française. At this time, Marcel Arland and Jean Paulhan were both directors of the review which they had revived from its ashes in 1953. Roger Caillois's correspondent, Dominique Aury (also known under the pseudonym Pauline Réage) sat on the Reading Committee of the famous Revue.
This letter concerns a "note" that Roger Caillois asks Dominique Aury not to publish: "Pour la note, comme je l'avais dit à Arland je renonce à la publier. Notre ami la prendrait surement comme une sorte de coup de poignard dans le dos, une trahison d'autant plus délibérée que je n'écris pour ainsi dire jamais de note. Elle n'en vaut pas la peine." ["Regarding the note, as I had told Arland, I'm giving up publishing it. Our friend would surely take it as a sort of stab in the back, a betrayal all the more deliberate since I practically never write notes. It's not worth it."] We could find no trace of this enigmatic note, which Roger Caillois is impatient to recover: "Retournez-la moi, voulez-vous. J'en ferai peut-être le noyau d'une étude plus étendue où j'essaierai qu'apparaissent moins irritants que dans ce condensé les rapprochements litigieux." ["Return it to me, would you. I might perhaps make it the core of a more extended study where I will try to make the contentious connections appear less irritating than in this condensed version."]