Lettre autographe signée adressée à André Dignimont

Autograph letter signed by Jules Romains to André Dignimont, two pages penned in black ink on a sheet of his personal letterhead.
Folding marks from mailing.

An engaging letter in which Jules Romains corresponds with the painter Dignimont about the forthcoming illustrated edition of his sweeping novel cycle Hommes de bonne volonté: "J'ai beaucoup pensé, cette fois-ci encore, aux belles compositions que vous nous avez montrées samedi. Je continue à trouver tout cela très important." Romains' remarks are revealing, as they highlight the divergence between how he envisioned his characters and how his friend interpreted them: "Est-ce que nos deux jeunes gens ne font pas encore un peu trop rupin...? (...) Je verrais de Marquis de St Papoul avec un visage plus maigre et plus allongé – un peu donquichottesque." He concludes with an apology for his demands: "Hélas ! Je suis embêtant. Mais j'aime tellement vos compositions que je me permets d'y rêver comme si je les avais faites moi-même."
The illustrated edition would be published in 1954 by Flammarion, marking the sole collaboration between the Académie Française member and the Montmartre painter.