Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE (1894-1961). L.A.S. "Louis", Le Hâvre de Grâce [August 1939, to "Popaul" [Gen-Paul]; 2 pages in-8 on the letterhead of the Hotel Frascati (annotated at the top by Gen-Paul "Received August 1939"). Amusing letter to his painter friend. "My good Popaul! How happy I am to have your good babble. I'm staying here until Tuesday - to get my head back on straight. I still have a little pain in the black currant. Damn! Did you see what happened? What a scumbag! Denoël is happily bankrupt. He drags me 25 bags. I'm really going to break his sleeve. I'm thinking about you. Not a peep out of you since the start? I long to be among you merry men! What a time to talk good! Shit! The days are counted I feel it before the great totalitarian bagne! Ah knew I had known! "...