"je n'ai pas beaucoup d'amis et me soucie peu de distribuer des volumes au hasard"

Autograph letter signed by Renée Vivien addressed to her publisher Edward Sansot, written in black ink on a double sheet of headed paper bearing the poet's monogram and her address at 23 avenue du Bois de Boulogne. Transverse folds inherent to mailing, two tiny marginal tears without loss at the fold.
Fascinating letter written by the Muse of the violets in the last months of her life: "J'ai reçu avec une très grande joie les volumes des Flambeaux éteints. Remerciez bien de ma part votre soeur d'avoir fait les corrections, et, je vous en prie, amenez-la moi lorsque vous reviendrez Avenue du Bois. Pour les six exemplaires de Sillages décollés donnez-les - je n'ai pas beaucoup d'amis et me soucie peu de distribuer des volumes au hasard. Maintenant, s'il est trop tard lorsque ma lettre vous parviendra et que les exemplaires me parvinssent quand même, ne soyez pas désolé, - cela m'est indifférent, je vous les ferai envoyer. Mes meilleurs sentiments d'amitié littéraire. Renée Vivien. Je vous envoie en même temps, sept volumes à distribuer au hasard parmi vos amis littéraires." ["I received the volumes of Flambeaux éteints with very great joy. Please thank your sister on my behalf for having made the corrections, and, I beg you, bring her to me when you return to Avenue du Bois. For the six unbound copies of Sillages give them away - I do not have many friends and care little about distributing volumes at random. Now, if it is too late when my letter reaches you and the copies reach me nonetheless, do not be sorry, - it is indifferent to me, I will have them sent to you. My best feelings of literary friendship. Renée Vivien. I am sending you at the same time seven volumes to distribute at random among your literary friends."]
The publication of Flambeaux éteints marks the first collaboration between the poet and her new publisher Edward Sansot. In these last painful years of life, Sansot and his friend Charles-Brun are her only two links with the literary world whose critics - once highly laudatory - have finally turned their backs on her. It must be said that Renée Vivien has decided to withdraw all her books from commerce and is gradually sinking into solitude and depression.
Handsome letter bearing witness to the last literary years of Sappho 1900.