Francis JAMMES (1868-1938). L.A.S., Hasparren January 31, 1926, [to Georges Goyau]; 4pages in-4. On his decision not to run for the Académie: "I feel too strongly about the place I occupy in France and abroad as a poet to leave myself again to the jurisdiction of some. Let us have neither pride nor hatred, but that dignity which is in order. [...] The least distant Being is God. But what little great men do not follow his example!" Although not strictly speaking a journalist, he "relaxes by writing certain chronicles about hunting, nature, the world or letters"; he would like to know if Robert de Flers would welcome some of his columns in Le Figaro. "Who is the man to whom I could surely address them, without the fear of seeing them thrown in with the Tartampion correspondence?