Léon BLOY. 5 L.A.S., 1903-1914, to Alfred Vallette; 5pages in-8 and 1page in-12. To his editor at Mercure de France. Lagny, December 8, 1903. Bloy is to travel to Paris the next day and will go to the Mercure: "I'll bring you the picture you're waiting for & whatever proofs I've been able to correct. I'm inundated with them. [This is the edition of Mon journal]. Paris, 12 rue Cortot, April 7, 1908. The bookseller Blaizot has given him Les Dédicaces à la main de Barbey d'Aurevilly, which he has just edited. Bloy finds the publication dishonorable for Barbey and offers Vallette a few pages of protest in the Mercure de France. He is "about to move, once again" and asks Vallette not to send him copies of Le Mendiant ingrat yet. He asks for Baudelaire's Œuvres posthumes, and announces: "A bientôt l'Invendable". [Bourg-la-Reine] June 2, 1911 (on the back of the printed notice of his change of address). He is installed and asks the publisher to send him 25 copies of Le Sang du Pauvre, with two Femme pauvre "& a small packet of the 'Prière d'insérer'"; he asks for the "statement of account for Celle qui pleure"... Mévoisins by Saint-Piat (Eure-&-Loir) August 20, 1913. He sends Vallette all his proofs, "as well corrected as possible", for the new series of Exégèse des lieux communs; he talks about the layout, the typography of the titles, the table. Two pages of his manuscript are missing, and he has to ask the printer for them: "You may know that the sale, sometimes very profitable, of my manuscripts is one of my resources"... Bourg-la-Reine, May 5, 1914. "A cad of whom I have much to complain, Baron Albert Lumbroso, director of the Revue Napoléonienne in Rome", offered him 50F to translate "a certain number of pages from Le Désespéré. I've just written to him that only you can authorize it. If you see him coming, I beg you to salt him"...