Gaston BATY (1885-1952). 3 L.A.S. and one L.S., 1925-1944, to various; 7pages in-8 or in-4, some letterheads, one envelope. January 5, 1922, to his friend Maurice Brillant (La Chimère vignette and letterhead), explaining at length his project for La Chimère and his ideas on theater, and asking Brillant's support. - March 9 [1925], to a critic, announcing the reopening of the Studio des Champs Élysées, "inauguration of Rolf de Maré's direction and my artistic direction", with Albert Jean's play (L'Étrange Épouse du professeur Stierbeeke)... - La Néranie, Pelussion (Loire) August 27 [1936], to Henri-René Lenormand; if he is called to the French, he will gladly stage Lenormand's Le Simoun again. - Théâtre Montparnasse - Gaston Baty, July 21 1944 (dactyl.), to Pierre Malo: "my puppets have found the house they need [...] they will move to the Studio des Champs-Élysées at the end of September"... 6 programs or flyers are enclosed: Shakespeare's La Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet Prince de Danemark (Théâtre de l'Avenue, October 1928); Théâtre Billembois (January 16, 1932, marionnettes lyonnaises, aux "Samedis de Montparnasse"); Musset's Lorenzaccio (Théâtre Montparnasse Gaston Baty, 1946); Marionnettes à la française: Au temps ou Berthe filait (June 1948, duplicate); Hommage à Gaston Baty (May 15, 1953). Plus René Lefèvre-Bel's copy of "Gaston Baty's unpublished Prayer, written when he had not yet directed anything in the theater".