Jean COCTEAU. Typescript with signed and dated autograph submission, Lettre aux Américains, 1949; 48 pages in-4. Typescript of the Letter to the Americans, written during the return trip from New York, where Cocteau had presented The Two-headed Eagle. The typescript is dedicated to Aymée Grasset, the wife of his publisher Bernard Grasset: "to Bernard's dear wife who reinvented this letter by reading it to her and listening to her read it to him. With all my heart Jean Cocteau ". At the end, Cocteau inscribed the date in his hand: "Paris-New York (Air France) January 12 and 13, 1949. Passages were marked by strokes or framed, perhaps for a publication of excerpts in a review; some marginal notes concerning arrangements or corrections are perhaps in the hand of Bernard Grasset, who published the Lettre aux Américains that same year, 1949.