Édouard BOURDET (1887-1945). 45 L.S. and 31 L.A.S., 1910-1937; 78 pages in various formats, qqs. headings and addresses. Attached are 6 L.S. addressed to him with de Bourdet's autogr. notes. Correspondence of the playwright with Alfred Bloch, general agent of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs dramatiques, and others (Leclair, Robert Gangnat, Marcel Ballot) concerning The Rubicon, The Chained Man, The Weak Sex, The Prisoner, The Shepherd's Hour... Request for a SACD membership card (sponsors : Henry Bernstein and Maurice Rémon), conditions to be proposed to provincial theatres, questions about takings in Algiers, treaties for foreign countries, recommendations for translation, performance privileges, disputes with theatre directors, authorisation to give a manuscript to Charles Boyer, insistence on full payment of his rights "before the first turn of the crank" (for the film adaptation of Le Sexe faible, 13 June 1933), approach to Maurice Rostand for Cyrano's entry into the Comédie-Française repertoire... Etc.