Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963). Autograph poem, Chant de la nuit du Nord; 1page in-4. Working manuscript of the beginning of a poem from Discours du grand sommeil (1916-1918), collected in Poésies 1916-1923 (Gallimard, 1925). It was published under the title Désespoir du Nord. Here, it is entitled Chant de la nuit du Nord, with the subtitle "Ring made for me alone". The manuscript, in black ink with erasures and corrections, includes the first four quatrains; in the edition, 2 quatrains and 2 tercets are added. "Tonight I sing, fruitful for me, swan. A child's boat. Ophélie au fil Of the water. Beat the bed, O fairy Wicked fairy! Une aubade"... Attached is a L.A.S. [1923] to a friend: he is "crushed with work" by his film [Le Sang d'un poète] (1p. in-8). Plus a l.a.s. from Georges DUHAMEL (1925).