Adrien DE MAX (1869-1924). P.A.S., 3 L.A.S. and autographed photograph; 7pages in-8 with his crowned cypher, an address, and 30x18cm. "My last will and testament": "I've laughed enough! Thanks to those who were kind. Pardon to those more numerous who were bad to me. I beg my friends and enemies not to come to my funeral. I wish that a van would come and take my body and that they would burn me. Vive la France! Long live Romania!" 2 letters to Adrien Bernheim, inspector of theaters at the Ministry of Fine Arts: he regrets not being able to free up four days to take part in his work ("Thirty years of theater" to come to the rescue of elderly and destitute actors); he would like to obtain places for the Conservatoire's tragedy and comedy competitions, which interest him greatly, and he strongly recommends a pupil of Raphaël Duflos who will pass his competition with Musset's La Nuit d'octobre. - To Émile Fabre, administrator of the Comédie-Française: ill, he has high medical expenses, and asks to be sent a bill for a thousand francs, to be deducted from his emoluments. Photograph in stage dress (by Boissonnas & Taponier), with an amusing note to filmmaker Henri Etiévant: "À mon camarade H. Etiévant un vieux cabot le cabot c'est moi De Max 1902". Enclosed: - an unsigned charcoal and red chalk portrait of De Max as L'Aiglon (26x19cm); - a telegram from Émile Fabre to Jeanne Sully about De Max on tour in Tunis (1924); - a L.A.S. from Henry Bernstein to De Max, "Ma Beauté", thanking him on the evening of a premiere; - a L.A.S. from Henry Bataille to De Max before rehearsals for Ton sang (1897).