"Depuis quelque temps déjà je le désirais et n'osait vous le demander "

Autograph letter signed by Myriam Harry addressed to a fellow writer competing for the Hélène Vacaresco prize, certainly Pierre Belperron for his work published by Plon in 1947 "La guerre de Sécession".
Postal fold mark inherent to mailing.
From the height of all her timidity, Myriam Harry did not want to solicit her fellow writer and receiving his inscribed work fills her with happiness : "Combien je suis heureuse de recevoir votre beau livre et même si aimablement dédicacé. Depuis quelque temps déjà je le désirais et n'osait vous le demander" ("How happy I am to receive your beautiful book and even so kindly inscribed. For some time already I desired it and dared not ask you for it")
Juror of the prize that Hélène Vacaresco had created to reward a literary essay and whose first prize was awarded to Marguerite Teillard-Chambon in 1935, Myriam Harry will not fail to support with her voice the candidacy of her correspondent: "vous pensez que je serai charmée d'apporter ma voix à une oeuvre profonde, et d'une si passionnante actualité." ("you think that I will be delighted to give my voice to a profound work, and one of such compelling topicality.")