BIB_ID
445532
Accession number
MA 23844
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Display Date
Casablanca, Morocco, [ca. 1927].
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.5 x 21.2 cm
Notes
On the stationery of the Taverne Brasserie Petit Poucet.
Undated. Probably written while Saint-Exupéry was recovering from an attack of dengue fever in the summer of 1927 (see Schiff, p. 157)
Saint-Exupéry has illustrated various points in the letter with five pen-and-ink drawings depicting himself in the act of writing the letter and other figures.
Undated. Probably written while Saint-Exupéry was recovering from an attack of dengue fever in the summer of 1927 (see Schiff, p. 157)
Saint-Exupéry has illustrated various points in the letter with five pen-and-ink drawings depicting himself in the act of writing the letter and other figures.
Provenance
Aguttes, Les Collections Aristophil, Catalog 55 (Deux Milles Ans d'Écrits, du Papyrus au Livre Imprimé), 16 November 2022.
Summary
Sending them news of his situation; mentioning Jeannet; writing jokingly about Henri Guillaumet and René Riguelle; thanking them for all their help during his illness; saying that he hopes to be back with them soon; [in a postscript] giving them the address at which to reach him, asking them to send news of "la ligne," and promising to reciprocate with anything he learns in Toulouse and Paris.
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