Pierre LOUŸS. L.A.S. "P.", Jumièges August 10, 1898, to his brother Georges Louis; 4 pages in-8. On the illness of Jean de Tinan (who will die on November 18). He reports the doctor's verdict to Tinan's father. Then: "Jean is up, almost always walking, very animated, sometimes very cheerful. Except for the tightness and swelling in his legs, he is exactly as usual. Yesterday he read eighty pages of the novel [Aimienne] aloud to us; from 2 p.m. to midnight he did not stop talking. He is making plans for the future beyond his thirties; he is twenty-four and a half. He is obnoxious to his parents. "So I asked myself why I was his friend. I am leaving tomorrow, Friday"... 4 L.A.S. to P. Louÿs on the end of Tinan's life are enclosed: 2. from his father Maurice Le Barbier de Tinan, giving news of his condition; one from his mother Valentine, after his death; one from André Lebey.