Jean LORRAIN. 4 L.A.S., 2 L.S. and 1 L.A. (the end is missin - Lot 214

Jean LORRAIN. 4 L.A.S., 2 L.S. and 1 L.A. (the end is missing), [1887]-1905 and s.d., to various; 14pages in-8 or in-12, some headers. [1887, to Joséphin Péladan], about L'Initiation sentimentale: "The terrible gouge-skeleton with the enormous slash (symbol of the eternity of baser instincts) on the frontispiece [by Rops] has already moved and captivated me, with this bloody head of Hamlet decapitated... what a sinister Herodias this specter of lust!"... Etc. (the end is missing). Fécamp September 19 [1888?, to Catulle Mendès]. He is sorry: "The madness of the century, but it has them all; lives are the same; it's always the eternal voyage from Lesbos to Cythera and from Cythera to Citeaux; I know of nothing in particular but this need for fame and this fever for appearances, complicated by terrible money troubles, which are truly the prerogative of our late 1800s"... July 23, 1891, to Jules Claretie. Request for tickets to see Mlle Moreno again in Grisélidis. He has two plays to propose, one "in very modern prose", the other in verse for Moreno... To Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi. - November 14, 1901. He won't be going to Les Barbares, but has promised Myriam Héglon to hear him in Astarté, and is going to see Otéro... - Saturday September 25, about M. de Bougrelon, Le Boudoir des Mortes, his collaboration with Le Gaulois... Venice, October 24, 1901. Long letter on his literary projects and forthcoming books, including the editing of his Pall-Mall and Le Jardin des complices on the Dreyfus Affair... October 3, 1905, to D'Harcourt, requesting a box for Polaire. Enclosed is a folder of press clippings, including Le Courrier Français (1911).