GREEN (Julien) 1900-1998. Writer. - Lot 119

GREEN (Julien) 1900-1998. Writer. 14 L.A.S. to publisher Richard Heyd. 24 pp. ½ in-4 and in-8. Paris, Merano, Copenhagen, 1947-1954. Envelopes. Beautiful friendly and literary correspondence: - June 7, 1947. Green devotes all his time to a film ("work I agreed to do, imprudently no doubt") on the life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. His next novel, Si j'étais vous, will be published in less than a month, and he is sure to send a copy to Heyd. - September 15, 1947. Busy with "odd jobs", he thinks a lot about the text he will be able to supply to Heyd. - October 7, 1947. The script for Saint Ignatius of Loyola is completed. Green considers Ides et Calendes as a publisher, and thinks about giving Heyd a book: his diary 1942-1948, for which he has signed a contract with the Salon Carré publishing house in Paris, with illustrations by Bérard. The text was submitted, as were the illustrations, but he was informed that the book crisis meant that he would not be able to pay the 1500 frs in royalties. - October 22, 1947. Green accepts the reasons for Heyd's refusal for the newspaper volume and adds, "I'll do my best to give you something readable about Paris." - April 1948]. Green is embarrassed by a note Gide passed in the newspapers. He doesn't want to meet him, but doesn't want his silence to be seen as a neglect of heart, for he likes him very much. - July 23, 1948. He had hoped to stop off in Switzerland on his way back from Italy, but the arrival of a cousin from America requires him to hurry back. - February 23, 1949. He received news of Heyd from André Gide. "Thank you also for all the kind things you are telling me about this article written in a hurry about poor Bérard". He refuses any exchange proposal. Heyd simply lists what he wants: "I will gladly give you the books you need, provided they are not too old, as I have no copies of my early novels left". - November 22, 1949. A society of bibliophiles offers Green 50 copies of four articles published in Le Figaro, illustrated by Rémon. He saw Gide "admirable for his youth and gaiety". - December 10, 1949. Thanks for a shipment of books. Green is very busy writing a novel and mentions Proust: "I like these letters of Proust's very much, in spite of his horripilantes affectations which spoil his correspondence a little for me". - March 5, 1951. "Excuse this hastily scribbled note on ugly paper, but I don't want to wait to tell you how happy and relieved I am to learn that dear Jacqueline is out of danger. Please tell her. You must have suffered terribly, but there are always compensations for such suffering. You'll see. - January 3, 1952. "I'm hard at work on a piece that's giving me a lot of trouble. Time flies faster in Paris than anywhere else, it seems to me. I always feel like I'm being robbed". - December 9, 1952. Green acknowledges receipt of a book, but a photo does not conform. - May 23, 1954. Green is to finish a play and start a novel, "and so on until the end, since apparently that's what I'm in the world for! - October 27, 1954. Asks Heyd if he can find him a reprint of Calvin's Institutions Chrétiennes, to be published early next year by Labor et fines.