Maurice SACHS (1906-1945). L.A.S. "Maurice", and autograph manuscript; 1 page in-8 and 1 page in-4. "Have you taken your reading subscription? Have you started Le Rouge et le Noir? It will also be necessary to read the maxims of La Rochefoucauld by marking with a pencil the ones you like the most, and to read them not by opening the book at random, but from one end to the other"... - A short "last chapter", with an excerpt from Dominique de Fromentin as an exergue. It is a farewell scene, with erasures and corrections: "I will go and bury myself somewhere. No doubt I will find the road that leads to God. It can be born from me. Every man has his own road that leads him to the universal goal and that he should know how to read in his heart"... Two l.a.s. from the young James Gulley addressed to him, London September 6, 1927 (in English) and July 31.