"Et cette note pour la NRF dont vous m'aviez parlé ?"

Autograph letter signed by Jean Wahl addressed to Marc Barbezat, one and a half pages written in black ink on a sheet. On the attached envelope, one can see that the mail was redirected to another address, as Marc Barbezat had just been mobilized. Transverse folds inherent to mailing and two corner folds.
Jean Wahl was Marc Barbezat's examiner for the philosophy baccalaureate exam, and it was then that the two men became friends. In 1940, shortly after writing this letter, Barbezat would found the magazine L'Arbalète to which the philosopher would contribute by entrusting his very first poems to his young protégé. This magazine would later become a publishing house that would notably publish Jean Genet's first and scandalous texts.
"J'ai conservé de la soirée passée avec votre amie et vous un souvenir délicieux en redonnant à ce mot un peu usé sa valeur. Ce qui prouve que, même de cette horrible époque, on peut conserver d'excellents souvenirs. [...] Et cette note pour la NRF dont vous m'aviez parlé ?" ["I have kept a delicious memory of the evening spent with your friend and you, giving this somewhat worn word back its value. Which proves that even from this horrible period, one can retain excellent memories. [...] And what about that note for the NRF you had mentioned?"]
Attached is a press clipping, evidently extracted from the Nouvelle Revue Française of December 1939.