Henry CÉARD. L.A.S., Paris November 4, 1907, to a colleague; 1 page in-4. Thanks for an article. Without the active will of old friends, "I wouldn't have been among the candidates for the Académie Goncourt. These friends have been kind enough to remember that I think as I can, that I write as best I can [...] I have never been worked up by the idea of 'succeeding', in the material and commercial sense of the word"...