Lettre autographe datée et signée à son ami le poète artésien Roger Valuet à propos d'une séance de dédicaces prévue dans sa librairie

Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan (15 lines in black ink on Académie Goncourt letterhead) to his young friend the poet and bookseller Roger Valuet.
He apologizes for his late reply due to health difficulties related to persistent shingles: "... I have barely recovered from shingles which poisoned my existence for nearly two months... I am still tired..."
He hopes to see his friend again soon and visit him in his bookshop to honor a signing session he promised him: "... I will do everything possible for this signing session: Friday would suit me."
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
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.