Jehan RICTUS. L.A.S. "Gabriel Randon". Paris July 27, 1895, to Laurent Tailhade; 4 pages oblong in-8. He asks him to pass on his article, "fantaisie d'actualité", to L'Écho; it has been rejected by Gil Blas and Le Figaro: "I am still too thin a person and I could bring Le Soleil alive to an editorial office and they would throw me out. [...] It goes without saying that my pseudonym of Jehan Rictus is ready to be thrown out in case of an affair, and that I would jump for joy if it happened. He is prepared to modify and shorten his text, "and as for trivialities that might offend, they can be replaced by a line of dots, leaving the first letter of the word"... He did not abandon his other project, but all he got were "tales of horrors told by a few unfortunate women, whom fear of the Police keeps silent. I've already been to a few of them, but I haven't had much success"...