"assez d'y avoir vécu un an et d'en avoir fait un livre"

Autograph letter signed by Henri Michaux in two parts, 45 lines in black ink on recto and in pencil on verso, written over two days (Sunday and Monday) on bristol paper.
Transverse fold in right margin of the bristol. Deletions and corrections in black ink on the recto of the letter
Henri Michaux refuses what is asked of him: "Now you're asking me for 20" (pages). "It's impossible... I've done 6 which represent 7 or 8 of your magazine. I can do 2 more, it seems to me (so 10) More? I'll think about it. But I cannot promise them to you at all." and asks some questions to his correspondent: "You still haven't told me the writers who are collaborating on the 1st issue (anthology section). I'm curious and worried about it..."
On the verso, the writer has completed his work: "And well there you have it, I have 10 pages... but I can no longer write anything about this country - enough to have lived there a year" (in 1928) "and to have made a book from it. So don't ask me for more. Just having to transcribe my letter (!) gives me a headache. In me, it refuses..."