" ... cela fait plaisir de recevoir de temps en temps ce tabac..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan (16 lines in black ink) to his young friend the budding poet Roger Valuet.
Fold mark inherent to postal handling.
Pierre Mac Orlan thanks his friend for sending him tobacco which he seems to appreciate greatly and sends him a check to reimburse him: "... if you don't accept my check, I won't accept the tobacco... thank you again for the St Claude blue."
A native of Arras, Roger Valuet is a popular writer who signed, under the pseudonym Roger Vilard, numerous detective and espionage novels. At the beginning of his career, he was helped by Pierre Mac Orlan who wrote the preface to his first collection of poems.