Louis JOUVET. L.A.S., Medellin (Colombia) April 28, 1943, to Mlle Angèle Bloch in New York; 1page in-4, stamped envelope. Jouvet has been touring South America since 1941. He tells his friend about all his setbacks over the past two years: "the difficulties we've had to endure, the defections, Raymone [Cendrars' wife] leaving again, Madeleine [Ozeray] leaving me, the difficult actors to work with, the struggles we've had to endure, a theater fire, Romain Bouquet dying in Santiago after a rather painful illness, the news of the successive deaths of Madeleine's father and mother! our embarrassments of all kinds. - But, thank God, constant success, shining more and more like the glory of the allied armies. We're going to Venezuela, and probably Mexico, and I hope to get to the United States and Canada soon, with a bit of luck, as we live from day to day, and travel is not easy in these times we live in"... The program for Claudel's L'Annonce faite à Marie (1942) at the Teatro municipal de Rio de Janeiro, with the Théâtre Louis Jouvet company, is enclosed...