Fernand CROMMELYNCK (1885-1970). Autograph manuscript signed "F.C" and sending L.A.S., Herblay May 26, 1951, [to Maurice Rostand]; 3 1/2 pages in-8. "May these few lines please you. I would have liked more and better; I ran out of time. My admiration for the play and my deep affection for you are poorly expressed in this stammer. - Draft of a text on Maurice Rostand's play L'Homme que j'ai tué [from which Ernst Lubitsch made a film]: "Talking about it here, I feel the same emotion I felt when I read it nearly twenty-five years ago. Every great reader, every assiduous spectator, knows that among the hundreds of works proposed to his memory, there are very few that stick to it and render, at each evocation, their full virtue and, plenary, their essence. Their virtue is to touch, together and in the moment, the heart, the mind and the soul. Their essence is the author's genius, his total gift of self. The memory we retain of them has become organic to us. It makes us what we are"...