Paul VERLAINE. L.A.S. "P.V.", Thursday 12 [1892], to Léon Vanier; 2pages oblong in-12. Sends an article to be forwarded to Tailhade and requests "several copies of Hôpitaux pour donner". As for Dédicaces, Savine will have to tear the manuscript from his hands: "Besides, the complete manuscript with the addition of a 20th of unpublished pieces will be the easiest to reconstitute. First of all, do you have the Chat Noir of late? Then the dedicatees of these new "masterpieces" are here - for a change, n. de D.! I begin my Prisons, concurrently with Notes sur l'hôpital and the revival of Au Quartier. Odes in his honor (nothing by Moréas) are going well. It's more or less the same tone as Chansons pour Elle, but higher and nobler, if I may say so, and so on. I'm going to get into Louis XVII at last"... He'd like to see Cazals, "but don't let him bring me any anarchist or annoying young men, or women. On the first day, come with all your invective. I want to make this volume big, very big. Long pieces will be linked. Odes in her honor will be the size of Chansons pour Elle"...