Guy de MAUPASSANT. L.A.S., Étretat, to the director of a magazine; 2 pages in-12 with his number and address La Guilette, Étretat. He gives his agreement for the publication of a text in a review: "I have the first half of my manuscript copied and I will send it to you. I would prefer to appear in the first issue in November. The parts published in Le Gaulois represent about a quarter of the whole work. The published parts have, moreover, been redone. There remain only passages of ten or twenty lines from place to place. This would be enough to make them recognizable. It is thus better to prevent. You will be able to remove all that would shock your readers"...