Jules ROMAINS – Signed autograph letter.

Jules ROMAINS (1885-1972)

Autograph letter signed to Mony Sabin

Three pages in-8°. Autograph envelope. Paris. March 22, 1947

“You have written one of the most striking studies that has appeared on Men of Good Will. »

Jules Romans particularly moved by his correspondent's article on Men of Good Will.

“Dear Sir, Miss Andemar has just sent me your article from the Écho d’Alger. To say that I thank you is much too weak. You have written there, in a few paragraphs, one of the most striking studies that have appeared on The Men of Good Will. No doubt your benevolence would be enough to move me - especially since it forms such a contrast with the ignominious wickedness of some, but there is something else: this fact (so rare, so wonderful!) that you give just the reasons that I wish to see in the esteem, in the interest that can be shown in my work. The word “understanding” has never had a better opportunity to apply itself. And how could I not be a little reassured at the same time? If you, whom I have certainly never indoctrinated, discover all this, which precisely my ambition was to put in my work, there is a good chance that it will be there a little. And how could a judge, of such obviously acute intelligence, be completely wrong in his measurement of a work? I'm not sure where to send this letter to you. I'll ask Miss Andemar. But please give me your address. I want to stay in touch with you (some of my friends will also want to talk to you about their projects, I'm sure). With all my heart your Jules Romains. »

Men of Good Will is a novelistic sequel written by Jules Romans, made up of 27 volumes, published regularly between 1932 and 1946.