Lettre autographe signée de Jacques Chardonne : ""Arts" perd de vue une chose : un lecteur de "Arts" c'est un homme qui tourne des pages. Inutile de beaucoup se fatiguer pour lui."

Autograph letter signed by Jacques Chardonne with his initials, 20 lines in blue ink regarding a supply error at Stock concerning François Nourissier's latest work.
Fold inherent to mailing. A date has been added at the top of the letter (21 January 68), probably the date this missive was received by the addressee.
Jacques Chardonne expresses surprise and indignation at the delay that Stock seems to have experienced in supplying and putting on sale François Nourissier's latest work ("Le Maître de Maison" published in 1968): "... For weeks people have been writing articles about the Nourissier... If truly a bookstore such as Stock only received the Nourissier three days ago, there is a rather serious mistake here."
Finally, Chardonne relieves his anger by delivering this unfriendly judgment on the magazine "Arts" and its readership: "Always excellent the Matthieu (certainly Matthieu Galey) in "Arts". "Arts" loses sight of one thing: a reader of "Arts" is a man who turns pages. No need to exhaust oneself much for him."