Letter from Alfred Jarry, [Laval], to Rachilde, [March, 1906(?)] : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing "Monday evening," Jarry comments on "the first butterfly of spring"--a specimen of a yellow-greenish butterfly, pasted on the letter, making a joke about Kipling's story "The Butterfly Who Stamped," and that with one solid "coup de canne," applied with the precise movement of a "zybou," he taught the "piérade de garenne" to live. Adding, "Speaking of insects," Jarry inserts four lines of a song about the cats owned by Rachilde and Colette, Minouflette and Prrou. He mentions his "phynances" and promises to send her the little cardboard puppets of Ubu and a few soldiers that "spring has invited him to procreate." Jarry also alludes to the translation project with Doctor Saltas of Emmanuel Rhoïdis's "La Papesse Jeanne" and to "La Dragonne" ("still on the drawing board, as well as the new in-18, but in fact we can only count on the Greek novel at Fasquelle"). Expressing apologies to Vallette about his debts, mentioning that he has sent a diplomatic letter to the landlord to save the situation at 7, rue Cassette, and referring to her husband Alfred Vallette, daughter Gabrielle, and the various "trolls" who attend her Tuesday salons.