"... je ferai mon possible pour me rendre utile... mais je suis entré depuis six mois dans ma quatre-vingt sixième année..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan (12 lines in black ink) to his young friend the poet Roger Valuet.
He apologizes for his late reply due to health difficulties recently encountered: "... if my reply does not come too late (because of broncho-pneumonia)" and shows himself delighted to be solicited for the presidency of the poetic society of which Roger Valuet is the initiator: "... I will do my best to make myself useful... but I have entered my eighty-sixth year six months ago..."
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Originally from 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 prefaced his first collection of poems.