Influential French writer (1869-1951) whose wide-ranging musings on politics, sexuality, and personal freedom earned him the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. ALS in French, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8.75, May 3, 1899. Letter to a friend, in part (translated): "What's happening with you? What springtime is smiling upon you? What grasses are growing? Are my cows doing well? Have you seen Guillot again? Or his chickens?…The trip was terrible, and I hope I never take another one like it in my life. To go seek happiness in far-away lands seems to me to be the purest folly. Right now, nothing in the world is more beautiful to me than Paris, and in Paris, my workroom…where, having returned only yesterday, I will be spending a few days getting my head straight. I was bored to tears for almost the whole trip…there were a few days of respite in El Kanbara which, in a few months, will serve as enchanting memories, but the most vivid aspect (at least for me) right now is the fatigue, the boredom, the anguish…I don't even want to talk about it. It's all over with…At the moment I'm thinking that this trip will have been our last; I'm saturated with visions, emotions…there is no more room in my head for them. I only want to work, but I've gotten out of the habit of it, and it may not be easy for me to get used to it again as I would like." In fine condition.
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