Marcel PAGNOL. L.A.S., Paris, Friday [1963, to Jérôme Carcopino]; 2 pages in-4 on his letterhead. He thanks him for dedicating his latest work to him: "I am reading your meetings [Rencontres de l'histoire et de la littérature romaines]: it is a delightful idea. The perfidious Cicero has finally found someone to talk to, and Verres has almost been cleared. As for Ovid's exile, it is as exciting as the Iron Mask. I had always believed, in good French, that it was a "surprise party", but your explanation convinced me. [...] I am now going to deal with Pliny the Younger [...] and with this Rutilius, about whom, fortunately, I have never heard yet, and that is why I hope for a lot of pleasure"...