Jacques COPEAU. 3 L.A.S., Pernand-Vergelesses 1929-1930, to Gilles Margaritis; 3pages in-4 with his vignette, and 1 page and a quarter in-8 (slits). Beautiful correspondence to the young comedian. [Gilles Margaritis (1912-1965), future director of La Piste aux étoiles, was an orphan whose guardian Roger Martin du Gard entrusted him to Copeau as a boarder. As part of the "Copiaux" troupe, which was joined by the young American Dorothy Imbrie, he was to perform Jean Villard and Michel Saint-Denis's play Les jeunes gens et l'araignée ou la tragédie imaginaire, on a tour of Switzerland and Burgundy, which ended in despair after Dorothy (who played the role of Miss Dot) left]. September 5, 1929. "My dear little Gilles [...] I often look around for your sweet figure. My heart was in knots when I knew you had been so suddenly arrested by evil. [...] I imagine you stretched out on your bed, drawing negroes with every turn of your arm. You must be very patient, my little Gilles, very careful, very wise. You must agree to this absolute rest and not cheat on the doctor's prescriptions. [...] All in all, it's fortunate that your unavailability coincides with a time when we find ourselves obliged to suspend our work. When you're well and strong, it may be just the time for us to get back into it, and if you like, if you remember us well, you can get back into it with us... Between you and me, old chap, I think Dot's departure upset you. I was too, imagining yours. [...] Let's beware of women, my kind comrade! And the more beautiful they are, and the farther they come with their big blue eyes, the more careful you have to be. Don't cry over this one, go on. Think instead of the beautiful work you'll do when you're back on two legs"... - October 11, 1929. He hopes the recovery is making progress. "Maiène [his daughter Marie-Hélène Dasté] has had a little girl, Catherine, who is beautiful and well-behaved, and both are doing well"... - January 2, 1930. He thanks him for his good wishes: "I wish you with all my heart that your health will improve, that you will soon find yourself full of strength and hope, and able to work as you wish. [...] But I also hope that the experience so unhappily interrupted may one day be renewed, and that you may again find the opportunity to work with me and with Maiène"... We enclose 2 L.A.S., Pernand-Vergelesses April 5 and 13, 1930: very busy and with little control over his time, he can neither send an article nor make an appointment... (half-page in-4 each).