One Autograph Letter Signed and one Autograph Postcard Signed to J.F. Scanlon, writer (?)

Author: 
Henri de Montherlant
Publication details: 
Tunis, 1926
£150.00
SKU: 317

Novelist, essayist and dramatist, both in French, signed "Montherlant. ALS, in original envelope, 2pp., 4to. In the letter, he is sorry to have missed him and includes him among the few people he does want to see again. "Je pense rester en Afrique jusque vers mai". A "Mr Bradley left for New York. "Il devait, pendant son sejour las-bas, s'occuper du lancement des Bullfighters et m'ecrire pour me servir au courant. . .". He thanks him for his article ("intelligent et sympathique") asking if he knows anything of the author. In the postcard, he speaks again of Bradley, claims not to see "elementary errors in French" in what Scanlon wrote, and saying that he will write to Bradley to tell him that Scanlon's translation is that best he knows. "Il y a dans la violence et le ton blessant dr Mr-L.M.G(?) quelquechose de voulu que me semble artificial et hors de tante mesure. C'est, en tous cas, d'une grossierete qui repond bien a l'idee que je me faisais des U.S.A. 2 items