Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S., Paris April 9, 1962, to Claude de Bellemanière; 1page in-4, stamped envelope. "Out of eleven million that I will receive this week from Cher Menteur the taxman leaves me three and asks me for four because of a delay. I'd like to help you, but without friends to help me I wouldn't even be able to live. This is the real scandal about which I inform you with sadness and tenderness". In the margin, he adds: "The taxman has ruined me".