Gabriel POMERAND. Tapuscript with autograph corrections and additions, Meditations in bulk; 156 leaves in-4 including 8 autographs under titled cover, plastic spine. Highly corrected typescript that appears to be unpublished. [In 1949, Pomerand published Les Méditations d'un bâtard ou les divertissements d'un archange]. The cover, along with the title, bears the notation: "(to be sorted and corrected)". This file gathers series of texts of various types. - Meditations 1 to 4 pasted on the back of letterhead of the Medical Service of the Union Vie, with important autograph corrections. - 3 autograph manuscripts : " The kiss is a late creation "... ; " Man invented circles and balloons "... ; " The need for strong drinks must be provoked by the oceanic feeling "... (this last one very corrected, with a beginning of clean-up). - 6 typewritten texts cut and pasted with numerous autograph corrections, then crossed out in red pencil: The battle, The parade, At the ball, The crossroads, The stone city, The circus. - A series of texts in double carbon (including the six previous ones in their first version), with very rare corrections; in the middle, 4 ff. are typed on the back of 2 circulars of L'Ami des bêtes, and 2 prayers to insert. - A series of 27 texts typed in blue and then in black, corrected in black or red ink, each marked OK in the margin. - 6 texts of a later typing, of which one (To have been Roxane) very corrected. - The last section is entitled Le bestiaire (autograph title) and includes 33 texts typed and corrected in black ink, and 3 autograph texts (the lion, the dog, the cat). Plus 2 autograph sheets (4 p.), list of names in black ink crossed out or framed in red (Eva d'Oncques, Zéphirine Barbot, etc.); and photocopy of another corrected typescript of Méditations en vrac (78 p.). Attached is a photocopy of a folder of corrected manuscripts and typescripts with autograph titles, Dossier Cocteau, [1956?]; approximately 230 leaves in 10 folders with autograph titles. Unpublished essay on Jean Cocteau. Plus photocopy of typescript plus copy of a letter from Cocteau to Pomerand with the poem Toast à Nietzsche (February 7, 1956).