[Paul VALÉRY]. Paul SOUDAY (1869-1929). 4 autograph manuscripts signed; 17 pages in-8 mounted in a collection of press clippings (56 p., stapled, spine broken). Important set of articles and press clippings on Paul Valéry, notably on his reception at the Académie. The three manuscripts by Paul Souday, with erasures and corrections, are : Autres Rhumbs (2 p.), on the poet's collection and his academic reception; Académie Française. Réception de M. Paul Valéry (4 p.); Au "Crapouillot" (3 p.), answer to an article of Galtier-Boissière denigrating Valéry; Les Livres (8 p.), chronicle on 4 works of Valéry, and books of Claudel and Jammes.