Lucien DAUDET (1878-1946). 5 L.A.S., 1935-1941, to Maurice Sachs; 7pages various sizes, one address. 27.X.1935. He thanks him for his kind letter: "You have let yourself be taken in by an optical effect, for childhood is a common domain where everyone finds themselves and experiences a melancholy pleasure in finding themselves again"... - 3.X.1937, evoking the "great misfortune" that struck him. - 11.IV.1938. Long letter about Bizet and his collaboration with his father on L'Arlésienne. - 18.II.1941, after his mother's death: "I died at the same time as my mother"; he is alone in the world, and has become "an old man whom youth often frightens and who shaves youth"...