Auguste RODIN (1840-1917). L.A.S., Paris 27 July 1893, to Jules Chavasse, in Sète; 2 pages in-8, envelope. An L.S., Paris June 27, 1898, to Marcel Clavié (1 page in-8). "You gave me great pleasure in the Journal de Nice to have defended me so well. I think that I must thank very warmly the writers who were kind enough to intervene in my favour "... Beautiful letter on her statue of Eve. Chavasse's letter reached him when the parcels had left, but he did not worry: "Send me back the Eve, I will make a new one for you with your head and hands made up. You will wait a little longer because it will take time to shape them. The sap that I sent you is such that I left it like many of my studies (that's what you can call all my bronzes) when the expression had arrived. The few people who have it in bronze Mrs Fourcaut and Turquet have it as you have it. It has nothing to fear from an amateur's analysis; even in this state, it has all the art it should have even more than in marbles which are necessarily prettier, but less artistic. I am happy [...] that you possess these two bronzes that you have chosen very well in my workshop and which I am doing me and to you "...