Jean COCTEAU. 2 L.A.S. "Jean", 1931-19410, to Bernard Grasset; 1 page in-4 each (small marginal lacks without loss of text in the 1st, file holes in the 2nd). 9 rue Vignon [1931?]. On the Essai de critique indirecte (Grasset, 1932). "You won't make me feel that pain and you have misunderstood me very badly. I want you to know that any idea of a preface embarrasses me in principle and that I find your introduction so high and so moving that this embarrassment had completely disappeared. ...] No, dear Bernard - either I will appear with your text and my hand in yours - or you must set me free. I'd rather appear somewhere else than at your place without the warmth that you give us. ...] I never lie. - 1940. "Your secretaries André F[raigneau] and Chateaubriant may have told you that I had just come out of a very difficult clinic - hence my disappearance. I have read your book [à la recherche de la France] which I find extremely important and which, alone, opposes so many disorders. I would have liked to tell you about it and talk about it with you "...