Lettre autographe datée et signée au jeune poète artésien Roger Valuet l'encourageant à lui adresser ses poèmes

Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan (15 lines in turquoise ink) to the budding poet Roger Valuet.
Fold marks inherent to postal envelope.
He urges his young colleague to send him his latest writings: "Bien sûr ! Envoyez-moi vos poèmes dès que vous les aurez réunis. Je les lirai et vous répondrai à ce sujet..." ["Of course! Send me your poems as soon as you have gathered them together. I will read them and respond to you on the subject..."] and hopes to return to the North to see him again: "Je ne désespère pas de revenir à Arras dans le début de printemps prochain, si... Votre vieil ami." ["I do not despair of returning to Arras at the beginning of next spring, if... Your old friend."]
Originally from Arras, Roger Valuet is a popular writer who signed, under the pseudonym Roger Vilard, numerous detective and spy novels. At the beginning of his career, he was helped by Pierre Mac Orlan who wrote the preface to his first collection of poems.