LITERATURE. Approximately 57 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. and addressed to Georges Lecomte or Edmond Cousturier, editors of the periodical La Cravache, circa 1880-1890; numerous envelopes. Paul Adam (9, and cards), André Antoine (2), Paul Alexis, Victor Barrucand, Émile Bergerat, Gustave Coquiot, Lucien Descaves, Félix Fénéon (on l.s. by Paul Valéry, press clippings enclosed), Robert de Flers (3), Paul Ginisty, Georges Goyau (2), Charles Henry, Gustave Kahn (5), Ernest Laumann (6, 2 on Chat Noir letterhead), Georges Lecomte (2), Jean Lorrain (3), Victor et Paul Margueritte, Octave Mirbeau, J.H. Rosny (2, including a prose poem Aura), Raoul Russel (poem Le Miroir), Francisque Sarcey (3), Armand Silvestre, Léon Treich (2), Pierre Veber (2, one to Fénéon), Léon Werth (2), Émile Zola (with W. Busnach). Plus qqs doc. enclosed.