WILLY (1859-1931). 10 L.A.S., 1925-1928, to Marcel Réja; 10 pages various sizes, envelopes (press clippings attached). Moving correspondence on the end of Willy's life, with his "old brother", Dr. Paul Gaston Meunier, in literature Marcel Réja (1923-1928), alienist, symbolist poet, playwright and art critic, friend of Strindberg and Munch, author of L'Art chez les Fous: le dessin, la prose, la poésie (Paris, Mercure de France, 1907). Willy "le Gâteux" evokes his books; Souvenirs littéraires... et autres (1925), Le Fruit vert (1927); his health: "A general abrutissement, where the j'm'enfoutisme and the discouragement, antithetical by definition, unite to lead to a deplorable aboulie of which I realize without being able to react against it. Without sentences, dear Réja, the moment arrives when I believe that it will be impossible for me to write a sensible line. Is there a remedy? Or is it necessary to take the ticket for Elsewhere (one does not deliver return)" (May 3, 1928); "Old chap, if there were a drug that, without suffering, one would absorb to go very gently, with it in the belly, to the final puncture! How it would be chic! " (May 16, 1928)... Etc. A circular to help old Willy, who was ill and unable to write (1928), signed by Curnonsky; with a l.a.s. from Curnonsky on this subject; a typed and corrected version of the circular by Réja; a letter from the newspaper Candide refusing an article by Willy (1927) annotated by the latter.