Jean PAULHAN (1884-1968). 3 L.A.S., to various people; 6 pages in-8, on the header of the nrf. On the 29th: on the critics "who don't have time" and are poorly paid: "Basically, we despise literary criticism, that's what it would be better to admit. And criticism gives us what we expect from it. Have you ever thought of the scandal that was the importance of a Souday? " He evokes the criticism of Crémieux, Grenier, Albert Thibaudet... - To Henri Hertz: "If you talk to Gide, I only beg you not to make any allusion to me." - May 11 [1957], to Jean Davray, thanking him for his book Le Bruit de la Vie: "I almost unreasonably like the attack. He wonders if he is indeed the Source Perrier: "In this case, I see the ruin of my family, main shareholder of the "Bouillants de Vergèze" (it was the first name of your source)". But he is without rancor... Attached is an autograph manuscript (incomplete from the end; 2 p. in-8) by Paulhan, Un petit mot, justifying his words about journalists. Plus a manuscript (by Charles Fouqueray?), project of illustration for Matelot of Pierre Loti; and 2 unidentified manuscripts.