Henri ROLLAN (1888-1967). 3 L.A.S., 1960-1965; 6 and 2pages in-8, and 1p. in-4. Vaison-la-Romaine August 23 (1960), to a friend. Long letter about the organization of a colloquium at the Comédie-Française. He works daily on Montherlant's Le Cardinal d'Espagne and "begins to hold the 970 lines of the text in my memory, enough to be free of these worries when we start rehearsing. As for the rest, I'm letting myself be "imbibed", so to speak, by what you so aptly call Montherlant's metaphysics". As for writing an article on the interpretation of roles in Montherlant's theater, "it's both crafty and vague, mysteriously empirical. I could say something similar to what Renoir said, I think, about painting: 'Oh, I don't ask myself so many questions, I just paint'"; and his time is taken up by rehearsals for Cardinal d'Espagne and Ruy Blas. - October 18, 1962, to Maurice Escande, about his leave to give lectures in Béziers, Perpignan and Ghent... - March 4, 1965, to M. Bordoni, thanking him for his welcome at Maria Serena; on his return to Paris, he was "caught up in rehearsals, classes and exam juries"... Attached is a L.A.S. from his wife Vera Sergine, July 25, 1932, to the actress Hélène Petit (1p. ½ in-4).