Pierre LOUŸS. 2 L.A.S. "P.L.", 1902 and s.d., to his friend Curnonsky; 4 and 3 pages in-8 (small hole in 1st). November 15 [1902]. Erotic letter during Curnonsky's stay in Cochinchine. "Curnonsky, my friend, several heavenly prodigies have followed your departure, which is a calamity. Darkness spread over Paris for forty hours. The nymphs of the Seine roamed the chic cafés, pouring their water into all the bocks as a sign of mourning. The obelisk folded limply on its pedestal like a mint tired of studying astronomy. In short, desolation is everywhere"... He recalls him in Colombo, "busy sodomizing an eight-year-old Sinhalese girl [...] How long are you going to destroy your precious health with impubescent cochinchinoises, of a caliber obviously too narrow?". He asks him to find him a copy of the Chinese novel Kin-Ping-Meï, and a complete set of Japanese phallos"... On his health problems: "Here, in all the horror of its details, is the illness that torments me. When I dance the cake-walk - or when I tread the pedals of my fake organ for an hour - or when I bend down suddenly to pick something up - or when I walk for more than three hours in a row - sometimes I think I feel a slight sensitivity in my appendix"; he follows a strict diet, and has been living in isolation for two months...