Pierre LOTI (1850-1923). L.S. to his friend Commandant " François; 1 page in-4 on yellow paper with his motto Mon mal m'enchante (portrait enclosed). Attached is a L.A.S. from his secretary Gaston Mauberger to the same (1 p. in-8). He wants to send some documents to be forwarded to Constantinople by a reliable friend: "I would be happier if you took them yourself, but I know that, as a Turkophile, the government did not want you to go back there. So I wrote to the Minister of War about you quite recently, to express my indignation"... Attached is a L.A.S. from his secretary Gaston Mauberger to the same address (1 p. in-8).