Pierre LOUŸS. L.A.S. "Pierre", Tamaris July 8 [1905], to his brother Georges Louis; 2pages in-8 on Grand Hôtel letterhead. Pierre Louÿs has taken refuge at Tamaris in the hope of making progress on his novel Psyché... "Since June 27 I've been in the room [...] Despair? yes. Complete. Impossible to think of anything but my debts, the bailiff, the landlord, the gas cut off at home, etc. etc. "Bolet Candelabra? [Do you want money, according to the code used by Pierre and Georges] I can think of nothing else, but a hundred voices are shouting at me: Yes and No. I don't know which one to hear. I don't know which one to hear. But I can only hear them, I feel that I'm a burden, that I'm useless, that I'd better not be here, and I spend all my nights repeating it to myself. What nights!"... Attached is a l.a.s. from Hélène Maindron to her brother-in-law Pierre Louÿs, [December 25, 1905].