"... je travaille en ce moment dans le silence, et n'ai rien de particulier à dire sur mes projets, sinon que la Rose de sable, roman, paraîtra fin 1931..."

Autograph letter signed by Henri de Montherlant, 26 lines written in blue ink, written from Algiers.
Folds inherent to mailing, envelope included.
Having returned from a long stay in Morocco, Henri de Montherlant explains his current working method and discusses his upcoming publication projects: "... la Rose de sable, roman, paraîtra fin 1931 et qu'une édition adaptée pour la jeunesse de mes deux Olympiques sera publiée l'an prochain par Larousse..." ["... la Rose de sable, a novel, will appear at the end of 1931 and that an edition adapted for young people of my two Olympiques will be published next year by Larousse..."]
He regrets not being able to immediately accommodate Christian Melchior-Bonnet's request for manuscript pages of his works in progress in order to review them in his Nouvelles littéraires: "Je vous donnerai bien volontiers les quelques feuillets que vous demandez, autographes. Mais je n'ai rien ici que les deux états des brouillons de la Rose de Sable et comme je vis dans la crainte de perdre le manuscrit principal, que je transporte dans mes déplacements, je garde le second." ["I would gladly give you the few pages you request, autographs. But I have nothing here except the two states of the drafts of la Rose de Sable and as I live in fear of losing the main manuscript, which I carry with me when I travel, I keep the second one."]