Maurice Sailland dit CURNONSKY (1872-1956). Autograph manuscript, 5 L.A.S. and 3 L.A.; plus 6 drawn portraits; and approx. 110 L.A.S. or postcards addressed to him. Autograph manuscript, Chasse en Norwège (12pages in-8), account of a trip and hunt in Norway in September 1908. [March 1913], to his friend Marie Vergon, about his busy evening. August 1 [1913?], postcard to Charles Torquet during a stay in Pommelin with Charles Müller. - September 21 [1914], correspondence card to Charles Müller [killed on October 1], returned to Curnonsky who noted "for HIM it was death!". - 22.X.1954, to Mme F. Dupont (Académie des Gastronomes letterhead), unable to attend a wedding, "old octogenarian and in the throes of a rheumatic attack". - 14.XII. [1954], to a "dear neighbor"; belonging to "18 companies of good gueulards", he has to restrict his gastronomic parties, victim of the "gastronomic and lunchtime 'rapes' that shorten my last days". - 3 letters from the end of his life (minutes) to relatives, about his decrepitude, a fall that condemned him to immobility and prevented him from attending "the quasi-national funeral of my dear and great friend Colette, now immortal", his ancestor Jeanne Sailland... Plus 2 autograph notes, including one on the "Maison Willy", and a typescript Vins de France. 6 drawings of him in profile, mostly in pencil (in-12 or in-8), in 1901 (by M.L.), 1916 (by Georges Worms), by Lahougue, by Haillot (on the back of a menu), by Lardeur... Important set of letters addressed to him, notably by friends, the "Curnonskas", in which Paul-Jean Toulet is mentioned: Yvonne Blanchet "Vovonne" (7, with photo), Madeleine Boisguillaume, Jeanne Erard (6), Lucette and Berthe Forget (8, with photo of the two nude sisters), Geo [Léone Georges?], Marianne Kinceler "le Crocket" (30), Georgette Laforet (4), Renée de Louville, Andrée Sarthys, Éliane Stranch, Mary Vergon [who later married Toulet] (11), etc. But also by Nicole de Bragard, Lionel de Ferry, Gastinel, G. Gédoux, Pierre La Mazière, André Maire, G.Normandy, Nicole Rouff, Gaston Thierry, etc. Various documents are enclosed: - contract for the posthumous edition of Souvenirs littéraires et gastronomiques (1958), with typescript of the Preface by René Chauvelot; - press card, rent receipts, hotel bill; - photographs of friends; - press clippings, etc.