Guy de MAUPASSANT (1850-1893). Manuscripts and autograph notes; 2 pages petit in-4, 1 page in-4 in pencil, and 1 page in-8. An L.A.S. by Pol Arnault is attached on a map with the number GM, La Guillette 22 June 1884, for "our friend Guy fort occupé". Two pages of drafts of a play, probably a first version of Une répétition (published in 1910). "The scene depicts a very pretty salon [...] a lady dressed as a shepherdess / listens as she strikes the leaves from a fern branch / a gentleman talking to her - it is a little marquis [...] in his hand he holds a crook [...] with a description of the people and their clothes / Madam, you have understood that we are rehearsing / a piece that we will soon play at a party "... Followed by a dialogue in verse between the shepherd and the shepherdess... Reading notes from Jacques Gautier's manuscript, a comedy in 3 acts, in verse, by his friend Robert Pinchon dit La Tôque (play collected in the Théâtre de Pinchon, Rouen, 1894). "Page 7. How is it that Hélène remains 3 pages without saying anything. What a face she will make. I don't like the paths of melancholy very much. […] 39. Pretended why not pretended. Digging into her problem - is it a well "... Etc. Notes on the costs and conditions of transport by low or high speed from Paris to Rouen and Longueville...