Romain ROLLAND (1866-1944). 2 L.A.S., 1905-1910, to Charles Dumas; 3 1/2 pages in-8, envelopes. November 2, 1905. He has nothing to offer her for Figaro Illustré, as he's not doing any news at the moment: "I'm so made that, for a certain time, I give myself entirely to one thing, and I don't know how to do anything else. For a few years, I did nothing but theater. Now I'm just writing a novel [Jean-Christophe] - a novel that is a series of novels, to which I devote the few spare moments I have. Perhaps one day he'll start writing short stories... He recommends his collaborators, the brothers Jérôme and Jean Tharaud, who could do great things for him: he invites him to read their Dingley, published by Cahiers de la quinzaine: "it's a little masterpiece. [...] These are precisely the breed of "nouvellistes"; they are made for the short story, and think of doing almost nothing outside of it"... January 7, 1910. Thanks for his sympathy...