COLETTE Set of eleven autographed letters signed on the pleasures of the senses

  

The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts for many years. Set of eleven autographed letters signed to Maurice Carrère. Including a letter dictated by Colette. Eleven pages in-4° and nine pages in-8° (two decorated with floral motifs).

Charming correspondence relating to perfumes created by her friend Carrère and the pleasures of the senses heightened by tea, rum, and port. "Dear Maurice, I did not know that so much "black" could dazzle! My joy is complicated by a little remorse, at the thought that because of me you could be pacing the floor.

From under my covers, I extend my old, cold, grateful paw to you. Will I not see you before the 28th (Hélène Morhange lecture)? I can guarantee you an exceptionally interesting text from this friend and interpreter of Ravel, and Jean-Michel Damase - sixteen years old - is a prestigious virtuoso.

Allow me to tell you that by changing the organization of your afternoons, you would achieve a quite remarkable success. We absolutely must discuss this, the sooner the better. Dear Maurice, I embrace you with a very affectionate heart, and Maurice warmly remembers you.

I hope the cats are doing well! It was enough for you to give me this excellent tea for me to start - not every day, but often - drinking tea again! "Dear Maurice, I do not have many means of revenge at my disposal: I send you my "Embroidery", and all the friendship of Maurice and Colette. "Dear Maurice, how is the second perfume coming along? I am eager to taste it. I am confined - oh! A little more, a little less... But give me news of you. Already guilty of making me re-love tea, you have made me re-love port. It is true that this one would convince even the most recalcitrant. Beloved Maurice is dragging on. Will you have someone deliver, try to be that someone passing by!

The last drop of Corsican jasmine having left me, I am forced to consume yours in indecent quantities, so that neither my home, nor I, nor my sofa, nor my cabinets smell enclosed, sickly, nor above all... Dear Maurice, we embrace you with tender affection.

"Dear friend, what a delightful midday. Maurice's cold has suddenly retreated. Your lecturer called me to tell me of her joy at her success. I cannot help but think of your very kind proposal to... As I hate it when my friends expose themselves for me, I implore you - in case you succeed - to be cautious regarding the delivery.

Maurice will soon have a tiny car, and he would go perfectly to fetch, in small quantities, the precious commodity. For I fear greatly that charming Simone Berriau, very busy with many things, may have forgotten that she mentioned anthracite to me. Dear friend, your old friend embraces you, and Maurice warmly shakes your hand. "Dear Maurice, the bottle is charming.

Finally a truly feminine bottle, inspired by an era that I love. The perfume also seems perfect: a little more "dry", a little less sweet! Thanks to all the Maurices, and to a Yves that I do not yet know? The girl has left for Curemonte first, then for the south. But you know all that! And as I am feeling better without being well, we are going to applaud, in the morning, Moreno at the Athénée; Jouvet is kind enough to send for me. Now you know everything - and also that we, both of us, are your friends who love and embrace you. "I was furious last night. You all dined in front of me, in front of my flu (and in front of Bebé) and you did not even climb my floor and a half!

I penalize you with a visit, and a perfume that prevents my home and myself from smelling like the Old-Lady-with-the-Flu. And I embrace you, but quite sternly. "So many bottles, dear Maurice! The Rum bottle is a marvel - container and content - We have just treated ourselves, both of us, with one of those grogs... Pauline is going to celebrate her first fortnight of marriage, to your health: Colette, yours, works like a horse - no kidding.

But it is mainly for the benefit of Fraternité, which pays her beans. Today a beautiful issue of Vogue is coming out, where she has a nice article and a lovely portrait, over two pages. Yes, for the house, if you don't call it at all? It will be "the house in the fields" and that will be enough. Yes, a lunch by the fire! We are looking for a car. I await you, we await you. We embrace you with all our heart. "Dear Maurice, I received a very successful trinket. The bottle, the varnished box are charming.

What is even better is the content of the bottle. "Crazy Wind" has precisely a little old-style breath that is - to my nostrils - a great merit. I would love to see you more often, but at the moment, in addition to arthritis, it is work that keeps me busy (Complete Works). Denise Bourdet tells me that Germaine Beaumont has sold one of her houses?

The wench does not write to me. Maurice and I are wholeheartedly your friends. "My dear Maurice, you are just here and there. We no longer see you, and I no longer have a drop of "Signature" to perfume my home and myself. I embrace you with a lot of cold dignity.

And we are waiting for you. "Once again another bottle of toilet water!!! My dear Maurice, you are far too wasteful to enrich yourself! However, your old friend persists in wishing you a thousand prosperities, not excluding the most material ones. I still suffer consistently, and at the moment I am putting my hopes in a Swiss doctor who is supposed to come to Paris.

These three words constitute a very honorable motto for me. You are a love and we both embrace you with all our hearts.

If you want to remind your family of me and my sympathy, you will greatly please your old friend. "Happy New Year, dear Maurice.

I waited to send these wishes, until the crowd of well-wishers had passed. And also until 1946 was truly here.

People generally have the imprudence to start sending New Year's wishes before they are even sure that the year will actually change, which could completely ridicule them, in case the government on high decides at the last minute that it is still 1945 continuing. This clearly shows human thoughtlessness. If these tufts arrive rotten - as they predict here - you will have to blame the unusual warmth of this January, on the P. That way, next year, I will send you onions, or potatoes, - or truffles. I embrace you with all my heart.

I am now going to the south. And will return at the end of January. As a cabaret restaurant owner, decorator, and event organizer, Maurice Carrère launched his first perfume, "Signature", in 1946. Check out our manuscripts The Autographes des Siècles Gallery specializes in the sale and expertise of autograph letters and manuscripts of great personalities from past centuries.

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