Henri BOSCO(Avignon 1888-1976,Novelist)/ Autograph letter si - Lot 496

Henri BOSCO(Avignon 1888-1976,Novelist)/ Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-4, on the letterhead of the Grand Café de la Bourse in Avignon, [1929], to Louis-Daniel HIRSCH(1891-1974, commercial director of Editions Gallimard and member of the reading committee):He informs him that he has urgently sent back all the proofs of Q. de S.["Quartier de Sagesse"], je vous suppliez le mouvement, de pousser Mademoiselle Gall [service] fabricationavec fureur; Bosco is already thinking about the trailer and proposes Sous l'olivier de Barbentane...NRF -En souscription, il proposeera 3 autres bandes : Barbentane aussi a des cœurs...., On aime à Barbentane... or Barbentane lieu de tendresse...He is going to make the pink paper and will send it to him immediately [the "just published" prospectus]; Lourmarina is having a party and a painting exhibition, which have been very successful; He says he has received an epistle fromBenjamin Crémieux(1888-1944, literary critic and also a member of Gallimard's reading committee) in which he puts a friend of his under my wing in Naples, and comments ironically : you know me to be violent enough not to miss such an opportunity to oblige someone whose beard I wanted to pull. My wing will be gentle on this Crémieux protégé. Very gentle. He specifies in fine that he will remain in Lourmarin until October 18.