Jean LORRAIN (1855-1906). 3 L.A.S., 1885 and n.d., to his publisher E. Giraud; 6 pages in-8, one with the motto Divina belluis. Correspondence with his publisher. July 29. He sends directly to Giraud the last proofs sent by M. Décembre: "Everything is intertexted, the titles changed, even the order of the short stories, and the whole more studded with mistakes than during the last correction in June, because I had the whole book composed in my hands. I don't know what kind of man this December is [...], if you don't get the big money out of this fool or scoundrel, to which we are both entitled, we are both the fools. See and act, I don't want to have anything more to do with this scoundrel"... Hennequin promised to talk about Viviane... Fécamp July 31. New complaints against Décembre "who not only changes the titles and inverts the order of the paragraphs, but misplaces the manuscripts [...] one has no recourse against such a man"... It is necessary to send a dozen Modernités to the Quittard ladies in Étretat, where yesterday he did not find any of his volumes and where the sale is better than in Fécamp, by asking them if they still have Forêt Bleue and Sang des Dieux... Having to correct Les Lepillier, and his father being ill, he will not be back in time for the sale on the 20th, but he instructs Giraud to make "the service with homage of the author and my name signed for me, to the bibliographers, but let me make myself the service of the Figaro, Gaulois, Gil-Blas, Événement, Voltaire, Liberté, Siècle and the one of the Reviews also; nothing to the fellow-members also, I reserve myself to choose my world". It is necessary to put in deposit everywhere, especially at Marpon and at the Librairie Nouvelle, "it is there the great outlet [...] Especially do not send anything to the fellow-members, there is a good number of them that I eliminate, the hostile and useless ones, Maupassant, Mendès, Maizeroy"...