Maurice BARRÈS (1862-1923). L.A.S., July 11, 1912, to Jean Cocteau; 2 1/4 pages in-8 on Chambre des députés letterhead. Beautiful letter to the young poet, who has just published his third collection, La Danse de Sophocle. "My dear poet, Banville has found you charming, and young women tell me they agree. What does any other feeling matter to you? [...] I learn with pleasure that he has sympathy for me, he who sings with such strong joy and in whom the frivolous accents of pleasure do not prevent one from distinguishing a serious thought which is forming to give us after all the flowers a peacefully ripened fruit. Thank you, dancer-musician, for giving free rein before us to the divine rhythm of youth."