LACRETELLE (Jacques de). - Lot 138

LACRETELLE (Jacques de). Born in Cormatin. 1888-1985. Writer. Friend of Marcel Proust. Elected to the Académie française in 1936. Prix Femina in 1922 for Silbermann. L.A.S. "Jacques de Lacretelle" to "Cher Monsieur". S.l., May 5, 1957. 2 pages in-8. Figaro letterhead (tears at head). ...I found among the papers I'm filing, a story sent by you. Since I didn't read it in the Figaro littéraire, it's because Noël, for one reason or another, didn't take it. I'm sending it back to you, but pointing out two publications that might be interested in it. One is Historia, published by Fayard and edited by Christian Melchior-Bonnet. The other is a new weekly called Artaban, which Jacques Hébertot has just announced to me. If you think it useful, you can say in either case that you are sending this letter on my advice and with my support... He adds in P.S.: ...I regret not having been able to do more for Le Littéraire. But in any house, even a united one, there are watertight partitions...