[Henri BERGSON, 1859-1941, philosopher Nobel Prize in Litera - Lot 494

[Henri BERGSON, 1859-1941, philosopher Nobel Prize in Literature] - Louise BERGSON (née Neuburger, 1872-1946, his wife) / Autograph letter signed by Louise Bergson, 2 p in-8, December 31, 1941, accompanied by an original photograph of Henri Bergson (5.5 x 8 cm), addressed to the writer Félix BONAFE (1922-1996), Félix Bonafé explained the circumstances of this letter in an attached autograph note of October 1978: Following a visit I made to Madame Bergson to ask for her husband's autograph, she wrote to me on December 31, 1941 in a most charming manner and offered me a small portrait of the philosopher / Enclosed: 2 autographed letters signed by Albert NEUBURGER (1891-1985, Louise's brother, thus Henri Bergson's brother-in-law), 1978, to Félix Bonafé, to whom he explains that his niece Jeanne (Bergson's daughter) has bequeathed her father's manuscripts to the BN, and he himself, the final legatee, has had Bergson's study reconstituted at the Bibliothèque Doucet, where all his literary correspondence has been deposited; he himself has kept the personal correspondence.