Yvon BELAVAL (1908-1998). 24 L.A.S., [1934-1939] and s.d., to Maurice Sachs; approx. 40pages in-4 or in-8, one envelope. Important literary and friendly correspondence. The tender friendship between Sachs and Belaval was born under the patronage of Jean Cocteau, often and at length evoked, since their February 1929 visit to the Saint-Cloud clinic where Cocteau was detoxing from opium, to which Belaval confesses to indulging. Belaval talks about his "odious, humiliating, despicable" job with the Customs, his vocation as a writer, his first writings (a study on dreams and poetry, a poem sent to Paulhan for the N.R.F., a play), his stay in Oran, the importance of dreams, his work as a teacher at the Lycée de Caen; he comments on Sachs' translations and his first books; he worries about Jean Desbordes, "alone and desperate"... Etc.