Jacques-Yves COUSTEAU (1910-1997). L.A.S. and L.S., 1951-1952, to André Auniac, director of the Chantiers navals d'Antibes; 1 page in-4 each, the 2nd on the letterhead of the Liaison Committee for Oceanographic Research Inc, Calypso Oceanographic Expeditions. July 8, 1951. He is looking for financing for his films and has obtained "material advantages in the cinematographic field (cameras, developing machine, Eastman Color film, etc.) [...] The U.G.C. Council meets tomorrow to decide on the film question. And tomorrow also the question of the support of the Air Liquide is discussed"... - April 25, 1952. He put "CALYPSO on the back burner until the settlement (imminent now) of all its debts, and in the first place the bill for the Shipyard. Once this first step has been taken, I will submit to you the plan for a second phase of activities [...] you know how much I have always emphasized the competence of the Chantiers d'Antibes in the work carried out on the CALYPSO, as well as the help given to the expedition. [The world is hard, but when, after much reluctance, it finally lets itself be conquered, it is magnificent"... Two copies of the Dauphin enchaîné, a weekly mimeographed newspaper on board Calypso, are enclosed: Calypso in the Red Sea (February 7, 1951) by Louis Malle and Frédéric Dumas, and En route pour les deux cents jours (January 13, 1954) by Captain Cousteau.