"Mais n'allez pas croire que le T.R. soit une revue catholique..."

Autograph letter by François Mauriac signed with his initials (28 lines in blue ink on letterhead from his Parisian residence on avenue Théophile Gautier) addressed to Abbé Casy Rivière.
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François Mauriac discusses his upcoming summer travels: "... je pars le 20 en auto pour les Pyrénées et ne serai à Malagar que vers le 1 sept. Regrets ! ..." ("... I leave on the 20th by car for the Pyrenees and will only be at Malagar around September 1st. Regrets! ...") but also literary activity and certain religious allegiances attributed to the magazine La Table ronde: "Le Léautaud a paru pendant mon séjour à Florence et je l'ai beaucoup regretté. Cela ne se renouvellera plus. Mais n'allez pas croire que le T.R. soit une revue catholique. Je suis à peu près le seul à l'être dans la rédaction. Et c'est bien pourquoi je ne souhaite nullement qu'un vicaire la lise." ("Léautaud was published during my stay in Florence and I greatly regretted it. This will not happen again. But don't think that T.R. is a Catholic magazine. I am about the only one to be so on the editorial staff. And that's exactly why I do not wish at all for a vicar to read it.")
He ends the missive with this revelation concerning his productivity as a vacationer: "Je lutte désespérément pour mon travail personnel contre tout ce qui m'en détourne, surtout lorsque je suis loin de Paris." ("I desperately struggle for my personal work against everything that distracts me from it, especially when I am away from Paris.")