André GIDE (1869–1951). 14 letters from the author and 5 letters to the author, 1927–1949, to Julien Green; approximately 30 pages, in-8 or in-4 format, with numerous envelopes. A lovely collection of friendly and literary correspondence. 1928. Regarding the screening of Vsevolod Pudovkin’s film at the Vieux-Colombier: “We are organizing, for a few friends, a private screening of the very beautiful Soviet film, banned by the censors: *The Last Days of St. Petersburg*”… 1929. – May 8: “I would very much like to know, before leaving Paris, what has become of your screenplay project”; they could discuss it with Marc Allégret: “I remember telling you that I would send you the screenplay of any film that would allow you to see how the subject should be presented cinematographically”… – [September 12]. Marc Allégret “has just finished shooting an ‘electoral’ film for Fabre-Luce that has completely consumed him these past few days”… – Cuverville, July 12, 1932. “Wasn’t it to you that I was speaking recently about Thomas Traherne (1536–1674), recommending—in preference to his *Poetical Works* [...]—his volume of prose, *Centuries of Meditations*”... – Karlsbad, July 28, 1934. “How can I express my joy? Your *Visionnaire* far exceeds my expectations. My expectations were high because of our friendship, and I opened your new book with some trepidation. I delayed reading it for a long time […] I was waiting for the right moment—which, for me, when it comes to a literary work, is never, or only very rarely, the moment when critics are discussing it […] Dear friend, I love your book immoderately. I love everything about it—not only the unsettling characters, the turbulent events—whether real or imagined—and that extraordinary overlay of a dream made up of everything that insufficient reality could not provide […]; but also that strange and unsettling atmosphere, so charged with mystical electricity; and, perhaps above all, your prose”… Etc. – Fez, April 6, 1935. “I’ve spoken a great deal about you, these past few days, with Jef Last, who is accompanying me (and whom you’ll need to meet before long), and my hosts [Guy Delon],” who have “provided Jef Last and me with a very spacious and pleasant room on the second floor of their Moroccan house […] What a city!”… Nice, December 6, 1941 (Green is in exile in the United States). Gide reflects on their evening at the Lido in June 1928, “glad to have written about it in my Journal […] If you had stayed in France, I believe that, like me, you would suffer greatly from the division of the country and of minds.” After Cabris, Gide retired to Nice, “where I live in solitude at a hotel”; he contributed to *Le Figaro* “a sort of weekly column […] in the form of ‘Imaginary Interviews’; but in which I can say almost nothing about what is close to my heart”; he saw hardly anyone except Martin du Gard and Malraux… May 24, 1946, on Green’s *Memories of Happy Days*: “I haven’t yet read the entire book; rather foolishly, opening it at random, I began reading at Chapter VIII; then I pressed on to the end in one sitting, drawn in and held captive by a sort of indefinable attachment […] Simplicity, profound honesty, naturalness—these exquisite qualities (and so rare today!) that we appreciate so much in Rutherford, I find them in you, and they give me peace. […] And, what’s more… ah! everything you say about the creation of Adrienne Mesurat”… Etc. – June 23, 1949: “Many pages of your Journal (I should say: an ever-increasing number of pages, each more timely than the last) had drawn me closer to you, to the point of making me doubt the significance of what separates us—which seems to me, more and more, not a reality, but rather a construct of your mind, for which I like to convince myself you are scarcely responsible”… Enclosed are 3 drafts of letters from Green to Gide (2 autographs and 1 annotated typescript), 1941–1949; a typewritten note concerning Marlowe’s blasphemies; a facsimile of *Moyens d’entraînement et d’excitation au travail*; and a handwritten letter from Catherine Gide to Green (1995).