"... si le cinéma reprenait, il serait plus utile que tu fasses des scenarii que de la charpie..."

Typed letter (15 lines) then manuscript (11 lines) signed by Louis Jouvet addressed, on letterhead of his Athénée theater, to his great friend Carlo Rim, then mobilized as a corporal-orderly in the Gard.
Louis Jouvet ironizes about his situation as a "disinherited man of the rear who... does not have the possibility of meeting his friends... who bathes in the blue of passive defense..." and demands the presence of his filmmaker friend at his side: "...si le cinéma reprenait, il serait plus utile que tu fasses des scenarii que de la charpie.. ceci est une pensée impérieuse de l'effiloché... est-ce clair?" ["...if cinema resumed, it would be more useful for you to make screenplays than lint.. this is an imperious thought from the frayed one... is this clear?"]
He also mentions what occupies him: "Je ratiocine à longueur de journée sur des choses de théâtre." ["I spend all day long reasoning about theater matters."]
Louis Jouvet signing by hand at the end of the typewritten letter.
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author notably of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker: "Justin de Marseille", "L'armoire volante", "La maison Bonnadieu", and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.