Léon BLUM. 3 autograph manuscripts; 10 pages in-8 and 9 pages in-4, with erasures and corrections. A large file of typescripts is enclosed. Draft of speech on the Popular Front (Clermont-Ferrand 1935 ?; 9 p. in-4 in pencil, headed Chambre des députés). "All [...] Feel the gravity of the battle. No appeal to com. - Double pact [...] Front Pop. with all those who fight. [...] The oath. Front Pop. risks nothing [...] Our headlines February 12 Doumergue Font Pop. Ready everywhere"... Etc. Exercer-Imposer, draft of speech to the House, [1936] (8 p. in-8 in pencil). "The Ch. has not forgotten the language the Govt used last Saturday. We told him that, in labor disputes, the government would assume its role of intermediary and arbitrator. We asked him to strengthen our will with his sovereign will, so that [the] government could impose authority. [...] To govern is to foresee. Yes, May also means facing up to present difficulties and immediate reality. On the 1937 World's Fair (2 p. in-8 on Présidence du Conseil letterhead): "The men who conceived the plan for the World's Fair had set themselves countless and unmeasurable difficulties. They undertook to erect an immense new city in the very heart of the City"... Attached is a large file of typescripts: speeches, lectures, declarations, duplicates of letters to Daladier, duplicates of notes given to Blum by J. Rueff or M. Rucart, etc.; plus newspapers and press clippings.