Léon BLOY. L.A.S., May 21, 1890, to Léon Deschamps, editor of La Plume; 1 page in-8. A replacement must be found for his next column, as Bloy is unable to contribute to La Plume for two weeks: "I'm about to get married. The impediment is rather serious, isn't it? However, as your magazine has undertaken to regularly feed its subscribers my fortifying copy, insert a note to reassure them for the future, explaining my silence this one time by any joke without announcing my marriage. It is infinitely important to me that the newspapers should know as little as possible about this event"...