Han RYNER. 26 autograph manuscripts signed; approx. 125 pages in-4 or small in-4 Enclosed is Ryner's copy of a text about him by E. Gomez de Baquero, Le Sphinx Rouge; a copy of a text by him, The Red Sphinx. Set of literary manuscripts: prefaces, literary criticism, articles, replies to surveys. Most bear a tender dispatch from Han Ryner to his beloved daughter Georgette (1895-1975), and show erasures and corrections. Literary criticism: on Francine Klein's Œuvre posthume (1933); Marc Chesneau, Chant en l'honneur de la vie (1932); Le prophète Tolstoï; Sans refuge, on André Baillon's Le perce-oreille du Luxembourg (1928) ; Prefaces: for Louis Rimbault; Les Mots croisés du Militant by Auguste Gorion (1933); Érasme by Hem Day (1936); Pourquoi je suis athée by André Lorulot (1933); Faubourg by Imre Pérely (1934). 7 replies to surveys, on contemporary youth, "What does culture mean?", "What should a young girl know?", etc. 6 articles: Franco-allemand; S.O.S. (1935, on Édouard Leduc); Questions de titres; L'Art de traduire; Cléricalisme et Liberté; "Pourquoi j'ai écrit Les Orgies sur la Montagne". Poem: Agonie de fleur. Plus incomplete ms of 1st page. Enclosed is Ryner's copy of a text about him by E. Gomez de Baquero, Le Sphinx Rouge; a copy of a text by him, Rêverie; 17 L.A.S. addressed to Han or Georgette Ryner or André Lefur, mostly concerning Friends of Han Ryner, including Sébastien Faure, André Lorulot, Léo Campion, Maria Lacerda, etc.