Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. L.A.S. "LF Céline", [Korsør] July 3 [1950], to his friend Paul Marteau in Neuilly; 2pages in-fol., envelope. Souvenir from his mother. He has returned to Korsør. "I find myself thinking that my mother is no longer to be pitied. I have felt an excruciating sorrow - but there is almost selfishness in wanting to preserve loved ones in a world so atrociously wicked. Without effect without literature without philosophy - after a certain age of lucidity - death is much better than life. Joining our dead is tempting, I assure you"... Attached is a l.a.s. from Thorwald Mikkelsen to Paul Marteau, June 15, 1949, thanking him for his book on Le Tarot de Marseille, and giving news of Céline.