Henry BAUËR and Gérard BAUËR. Collection consisting of letters, portraits,...

Henry BAUËR and Gérard BAUËR. Collection consisting of letters, portraits, various documents, and books.
1/ Henry BAUËR.
- Signed autograph letter to a woman, 1 p., in-8, accepting an invitation and expressing gratitude.
- Signed autograph letter to a “dear colleague.” January 12, 1890. 3 pp., in-12, on paper bearing his monogram. On the question of the advisability of establishing a commission for literature and the arts. He prefers to give his opinion in person and invites him to visit his home the following day.
- F. DESMOULINS. Portrait of Henry Bauër. Engraving. 2 prints on Japanese paper, 1 on Chinese paper.
- Abel HERMANT. Literary Notes. “A Actress,” by Henry Bauër. No place, no date. 2 pp., in-4
- 6 articles by Henry Bauër, newspaper clippings.
2/ Gérard BAUËR.
37 letters (9 pp., in-8, and 27 pp., in-4) and 16 signed autograph postcards to the writer and journalist Paul Brach. 1919–1932. A few letters are missing.
Significant friendly and literary correspondence. May 21, 1920: “I’m going to enjoy the fresh air of the countryside, though I’m obliged to write a lead article on Henry Bordeaux… Well, one has to make a living… (despite Barbey, who would reply: Is it really so necessary?” – September 1, 1920: On the first issue of the magazine *L’Œil de bœuf*, founded by Brach. “I reread your verses, those of Regnier, and Chalupt’s prose with great pleasure. The first issue as a whole isn’t bad. But what a mediocre presentation! It’s practically that of a pharmacist’s flyer…” – January 1, 1925: “I love too many things to devote myself to just one. I love games, love, books, music, the city, and the countryside—in short, everything… Even the dark pleasure of a melancholic heart, as La Fontaine says in *Psyché*. But he says it so delightfully.” – May 19, 1926: “I ask you, with some insistence, not to mention the disagreement we discussed this morning… If I’ve been clumsy, I don’t want my blunders to be used as a weapon against a talent for which I still have great esteem…” – October 10, 1929: “I have a column to finish and take to *Vogue*, where Colette and Princess Bibesco are taking it easy…” – April 27: *Le Hollande* is of excellent quality. So is the preface. I don’t want to write to you about it, because it would take me twenty pages of a magazine… “The primary quality of a novel—if we accept that it is a story being told—is that it gives the reader the illusion of truth…” – undated: “I’ve received a new draft contract from Flammarion. It’s not exactly what I wanted… I’m not going to haggle when you’re offering me the chance to be a petal on a rose you’ve crafted yourself!” – undated, on letterhead from the Royal Hotel in Gstaad. “Guy de Pourtalès and his wife are charming to me and very pleasant companions. He has a realistic view of things and what I love so much: an open mind (which isn’t bad for someone like him who could easily harbor many prejudices)…”
- Gérard BAUËR. Photographic portrait with a dedication to Paul Brach dated 1925.
- Gérard BAUËR. “Memories of a Century.” Signed autograph manuscript. 4 pp. in-4. On the exhibition organized by the *Revue des Deux-Mondes* to mark its centennial. Amid the manuscripts of the most illustrious authors of the time, next to Mr. de Balzac’s cane… “There one can see Théophile Gautier’s stool, Mr. de Vigny’s cathedral-shaped inkwell, some of Dumas the Elder’s hair (which I know well), and Lamennais’s quill…”
- Gérard BAUËR. Two autograph manuscripts signed “Guermantes” (Bauër’s pseudonym at *Le Figaro*, where he wrote a column titled “Les jours se suivent”): “Romances” (1 p., in-4) and “Pas de chance” (1 p., in-4)
- Two autographed calling cards and one autographed postcard.
- 3 photographic portraits. Photographs by Lipnitzki-Viollet.
Included are 18 works, including:
- Henry BAUËR. *Une comédienne*. – Scenes from Theater Life –. Paris, Charpentier, 1889. 12mo, red half-basane, ribbed spine gilded and decorated with gilt fleurons, scattered foxing.
- Henry BAUËR. *De la vie et du rêve*. Paris, Simonis Empis, 1896. Publisher’s percaline. 332 pp.
- Henry Bauër. Tours, Imprimerie Arrault, 1901. In-8, paperback, untrimmed, stains on the cover, small pinholes. 46 pp., [1 f.], portrait as frontispiece. Copy on Holland paper printed especially for Lucien Besnard. Articles by Jean Jullien and Henry Béranger. Report on the dinner held on March 24, 1897, in honor of Henry Bauër.
- Marcel CERF. The Musketeer of the Pen. The Life of a Great Drama Critic: Henry Bauër, Natural Son of Alexandre Dumas, 1851–1915. Foreword by Jean Savant. Paris, Académie d’Histoire, 1975. In-8, paperback, cover