Louis ARAGON (1897–1982). L.A.S. “A.,” Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, August 5 [1942], to Monique Chambaud in Bordeaux; 1 page, in-12 format, postcard with sender’s and recipient’s addresses on the back (slightly creased). Following the arrest and deportation of the poet and Resistance fighter Jean Cayrol. [Aragon, who had taken refuge with Elsa Triolet in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon at Pierre Seghers’s home, was doing his best to publish Cayrol’s poems through his friend in Bordeaux, Monique Chambaud.] He is worried about not having heard from her… “In the meantime, I have submitted *Hic et Nunc* to my friends at *Confluences* [a Lyon-based journal edited by René Tavernier], where it will be published in part by October. I had previously made sure that Fontaine was publishing a fragment of the poems to be included in the book, which is due out very soon. I think I did the right thing. One mustn’t let oneself be surrounded by silence, must one? And other friends of our friend are showing a passivity these days that one might call by another name”…