" ... un petit mot d'amitié pour vous dire que j'ai reçu cette jolie pipe que je fume en ce moment, bien qu'un peu souffrant..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan (13 lines in black ink) to his young friend the budding poet Roger Valuet.
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
Pierre Mac Orlan, tired from his past year, thanks his friend for offering him a pipe and promises to send him his latest work: "... in about two weeks, I will send you my latest poem: it's a small, unencumbering book (30 pages)..."
He sends his regards to Roger Valuet's family and to the people of Arras: "I send you first my best friendship for you, your young wife... and your parents. Kind regards to Arras and my dear friends in that city."
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.