Francis JAMMES (1868-1938) poet. 3 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S., Hasp - Lot 253

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Francis JAMMES (1868-1938) poet. 3 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S., Hasp - Lot 253
Francis JAMMES (1868-1938) poet. 3 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S., Hasparren (Basses-Pyrénées) February 1937, to actress Jeanne BOITEL, in Paris; 13 pages in-4, 2 envelopes, and illustrated postcard. February 6. The old poet sends her a branch of his laurels: "you have rendered in a sublime way the soul, the face and the voice of Eugénie Grandet. You and those who accompanied you were worthy - and what can I say! - of Balzac's genius"... He invites her to share this letter with the other performers and the director, and to tell Albert Arnault [author of the stage adaptation] "that he was equal to a task that was almost impossible to assume"... 22 February. "My child, I bless you. [...] I wrote a poem a little after my twentieth birthday. [...] It is on this dislocated idyll that poetry will start again after a long sleep. He will attend this rebirth of what I conceived in 1888. I will be dead for a long time without doubt. It would have been, it will be perhaps what was, and much more, the Passing for Sarah "... February 23. Portrait of Jammes (by Macier), dedicated "to the soul of Eugénie Grandet", and on the back: "to Jeanne Boitel [...] on her way back from mass"... March 24, 1937. Presentation of UUn jour, one of those youthful works "coming out of the heart like an army of white lilies". One must read this act slowly: "ask yourself what you could give in this role of primitive: the soul of the poet. It could be a curtain raiser that would be a dawn raiser"... He gives some indications of the set, agreeing if necessary to modify some lines. "Copeau wanted to play Un jour puis la guerre éclata and I no longer cared. It is true that I do not like the theater. Jane Bathory had even rehearsed in front of me when I went to Paris. It was, moreover, Un jour entirely set to music by Raymond Bonheur. But here your simple voice would say the verses - preceded perhaps by a discreet overture. [...] The young people return to me and I would like to see you triumph "...
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