BIB_ID
405850
Accession number
MA 9074
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Display Date
1906 May 28.
Credit line
Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Rachilde was the pen name of Marguerite Eymery Vallette, a French symbolist novelist and playwright and wife of Alfred Vallette, founder and editor of "Mercure de France," a French literary magazine.
Provenance
Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman from the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection, 2017.
Summary
Being Jarry's will, written in the third person as the testament of Père Ubu and dictated while he was very ill and staying with his sister in Laval; describing his medical condition in detail; reminding the reader that he is not writing this testament in a fever; describing items which he is bequeathing to Rachilde and Vallette and asking that they pray for him; saying that he dictated to his sister a detailed plan for a new book which he offers to her to do with as she wishes, to finish herself or in a posthumous collaboration; adding that his sister will send her the manuscript; saying he is ready to die and believes his brain, even in decomposition, will work beyond his death; adding two postscripts, each signed with his initials, the first of which has been crossed through in which he tells her that a letter dictated the previous day is almost a duplicate of this one and in the 2nd he tells her that the doctor has just come and believes he can save him.
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