Laurent TAILHADE (1854-1919). 11 L.A.S. and 2 L.S., 1907-191 - Lot 151

Laurent TAILHADE (1854-1919). 11 L.A.S. and 2 L.S., 1907-1918 to Louis de Gonzague Frick; 16pages various sizes (including 6 postcards and 2 visiting cards), envelopes. Friendly and literary correspondence, in which Tailhade lets his satirical pen run wild. In September 1907, he waited for a letter that never came, and would be "in no way surprised if you found it in your pockets [...] Royère, who was to have written an article on the Poëmes élégiaques, makes no mention of it in his review, where a few pages on the poet shine out!!!!!!!!!!! John Antoine Nau. It consoles many a sadness, and truly the sweetness of laughter is not yet in exile from down here". - April 14, 1908: he has read with interest the volume by Jules Romains, and knowing his correspondent's taste for "soutaché jackets", he gives him a Breton vest. - October 30, 1908: he lists his recent publications in Comœdia. - October 23, 1911: he has read Pan's poem Lilith and teases him about rhymes. - August 13, 1912: "I suffer a little to see you even at such stories as this pantalonnade by Han Ryner. Is this the place of such a distinguished mind as yours? You will allege me J.H. Rosny, Griffin [...] I will answer you: it is not what they did best"... - 1918, about a "pohate lady" who writes under the name of Roger de Nereÿs (visiting card a. s. from the lady enclosed) and recommends L. de G. F. and a certain Paul Méral "whose volumes of repulsive bad taste have color only in their inking". On October 17, he is to give a lecture at the Odéon on Aeschylus, "a fine subject, but how difficult! Aeschylus comes from Eleusis and the sanctuary of Demeter; consequently devout to the chtonian divinities"; Prometheus's vaticinations are reminiscent of those of Erda "when she explains to Wotan the bankruptcy of the Gods [...] I would like to give them this mythology, even if it annoys them"... We enclose: - a L.A.S. [1891, to Léon Vanier?], sending his poem Le Blason de Flore; - a L.S. (July 30, 1900) to a colleague about his speech on Diderot; - and 3 L.A.S. to Paul Argyriadès (1900-1901), one from the Santé prison, about his Almanach de la question sociale...