Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) L.A.S., Marnes-la-Coquette June 29, 1963; 1page oblong in-4, envelope. "Thank you my dearest Lucien. Your beautiful pictures fall on my sick bed and are better than the remedies. People" have decided that I'm doing wonderfully. But I'm in a very bad way, and I can't see any progress in this slow, lying fall "against" the work and strength that are in me".... [Cocteau dies on October 11]. Attached is a typed page of excerpts from Cocteau's letters to L. Clergue by J.M. Magnan, with Cocteau's autograph annotations in pencil (1p. in-4). CCC p. 81-82. Lots 24 to 68 are sold by provisional auction with the option of reunion.