Léon BAZALGETTE (1873-1928). 47 L.A.S., 1908-1914, to Otto Grautoff; approx. 80 pages mostly in-8 (including 11 cards and 2 postcards, one incomplete letter; some flaws). Interesting literary and artistic correspondence. [Otto Grautoff (1876-1937) was a German art historian specializing in Nicolas Poussin]. Bazalgette talks about his book on Walt Whitman, about Rodin in relation to Grautoff's book ("it is a considerable and valuable work for the German public"), about a study in preparation on Turner, about a collection on Woman in various countries, about his youth book L'Esprit nouveau and his Problème de l'Avenir Latin, about Ellen Key and Lou Andréas-Salomé, whose acquaintance he would like to make, Romain Rolland on "l'éternelle question des rapports de la France et de l'Allemagne", Versets d'André Spire, Émile Verhaeren, Rembrandt, Jules Romains' translation of Richard Dehmel's poems, the poetry anthology being prepared by Grautoff, Spanish painter Joaquin Sunyer, "l'aventure d'Apollinaire" (theft of the Mona Lisa), Stefan Zweig, etc. A photograph of Bazalgette is included.