Émile VERHAEREN (1855-1916). 2 autograph manuscripts, one si - Lot 352

Émile VERHAEREN (1855-1916). 2 autograph manuscripts, one signed, and 14 L.A.S., 1888-1897, to Georges Lecomte or Edmond Cousturier; 17 pages n-8 or in-12, envelopes and addresses. Verhaeren's contribution to the magazine La Cravache. Au café concert, prose, signed (1 p. oblong in-8 filled with very tight handwriting, with erasures and corrections): "Je m'assis au fond du hall de verre & de fer, morne & mordant les raillons derniers d'un cigare"... [La Révolte], first version of the poem collected in Les Flambeaux noirs (Deman, 1891); it is here untitled with the epigraph: "Mourir pour la Patrie / Chant des Girondins", and shows erasures and corrections and variants with the final version; the poem has 6 tercets and a final stanza of 5 verses: "Vers une ville au loin d'émeute & de tocsin With the bright iron of the guillotines upon us Et tout à coup de fou désir, s'en va mon cœur"... Bruxelles September 22, 1888 (on L'Art Moderne letterhead): "ma collaboration à la Cravache vous est acquise"; he has found a new subscriber, Iwan Gilkin, "one of our good poets", who also wishes to collaborate with the magazine, as does Camille Lemonnier. Submissions of verses and a prose poem; request for corrections to a sonnet; trips to Burgundy, with Théo [van Rysselberghe]; sale of a Degas pastel; meetings and invitations with Luce, etc.