Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 1st February 1915 (post mark), 4 p. in-8° in black in on laid paper
« In the meantime, I can’t stop thinking about you… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris, 21st November 1918], 4 p. in-8° with autograph envelope
« The human condition is so perfidiously cruel… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
N.p.n.d., [Paris, 13 Aug. 1903], 3 p. small in-8°
« I have an uncle who has been very ill with his stomach for several years… »
Autograph pastiche-poem signed « Marcel Proust »
N.p.n.d [c. summer 1908], 2 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« Seigneur, si vous daignez m’admettre dans les Salles / Où le Juste rompra le Pain Essentiel, / Que de marbre aussi pur étincellent vos stalles ! »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
N.p, [December 7, 1904], 4 pp. in-8°, mourning paper
« The truly unsightly land is not that which art has not sown, but that which, covered with masterpieces, knows neither how to love them nor even how to preserve them »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Reynaldo Hahn
N.p.n.d « Monday » [7th January 1907], 8 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« If you write to Montesquiou, tell him that the truth is out of his dilemma, in full improbability for those who do not know my life… »
Autograph carte-de-visite signed « A.D. » [to Gaston Calmette]
N.p.n.d. [Paris, evening of the 6 of February 1897], 1 p. in-24°
« The meeting between Marcel Proust and Lorrain »
[5th December 1904], original period film print. Round photography (159 mm diameter), mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer’s name.
One of the last portraits of Jeanne Weil Proust, less than a year before her death
Original photograph by Paul Boyer
Period albumin print (c. 1891). Carte-de-visite format (90 x 58 mm)
Very scarce original photograph of young Marcel Proust
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
[Camden Place], Chislehurst, 1st June [1872], 4 pp. petit in-8°
« My son asks me to send his regards to the young ladies »
Vintage print with autograph dedication, signed « Paul Valéry »
S.l., June 1926, 16,5 x 11 cm
Elegant portrait of the poet in a three-quarter view
Autograph letter signed « L. Pasteur » [to professor Charles Bouchard]
Paris, 19th July 1888, 3 pages in-8° on laid paper
« Its immunity has been tested by inoculation on the surface of the brain »
Autograph letter signed « Marie Laurencin » to Roger Nimier
St-Benoît-sur-Loire, 30th August [1952], 3 p. 1/2 in-12° with an original drawing
« The little bit of library – Mauriac – Proust – Gide – Bernanos etc. »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
N.p.n.d. [Paris, 13 Nov. 1903], 2 p. 1/2 small in-8°, with envelope
« Since your wedding, I’ve been tormented »
Original drawing, inscribed to Reynaldo Hahn : « R.H. (Bininuls) »
N.p.n.d [c. 1909 ?], 1 p. in-8° in black ink on laid paper
Precious drawing by the writer, dedicated to his « Bininuls »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
N.p.n.d., [26 Dec. 1904], 1 p. small in-8°, with envelope
« Your lights in this fog; a nativity scene in the darkness »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
N.p.n.d. [shortly before 24 Dec. 1904], 1 p. 1/2 small in-8°
« I would have been happy to spend an evening with you — especially that one, which our imagination still endows with a kind of legendary charm »
Autograph “Carte-télégramme” signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
[Paris], « Monday morning », postmark [7 Nov. 1892], 1 p. in-16°
« Would you do us all the pleasure of coming to dinner… just with Mr. Bergson, and especially not in formal wear »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Fernand Gregh
[Paris, July / August 1892], 2 p. in-8° in bold pencil
« I have an upcoming exam that makes me work all day »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Fernand Gregh
N.p.n.d., [21 May 1897], 1/2 p. small in-8°
« I’m sending you all my congratulations »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » à Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris, after February 7th, 1922] 3 p. in-8° on light grey paper
« There is a good chance that you did not notice that I was at Princess Soutzo’s the other evening »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
[Paris], « 9 Bd Malesherbes » [27th May 1895], 1 p. in-12° on ‘petit bleu’
« Tomorrow some of my worst verses will be heard »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
N.p, 17th April 1917, 4 pp. large in-8°
« I came back with nostalgia for Lost Time… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 16th April 1918, 1 p. in-8°
« I will arrange to see you very soon »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 9th January 1915, 4 p. in-8° with envelope
« And now I know. I know that you, the being of all whom I would like to blossom in the noblest joy, that this being is heartbroken »
Telegram to Marie Scheikévitch
[Friday 21st September 1917], 1 p. in-8°
« My health, so detestable at this moment, often deprives me at the last hour of the most desired pleasures»
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
Cabourg, [5th September 1912], 3 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Fortunately, I have no memory and I forget extremely quickly the people I liked »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Robert de Billy
S.l [Paris], between the 11th and the 14th of January 1912, 4 p. in-8°
« Above all, don’t send me back the previous 500. You’ll give them back to me when you come… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Louis Suchet d’Albufera
[Paris, 26th May 1908], 4 p. in-8° in mourning paper
« It is the elegance of generous and delicate hearts when they render great service like you, to say that it is no service »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Albert Nahmias
N.p.n.d (after 1911), 4 pp. in-8
« I had made some small commitments »
Autograph letter signed “Marcel” to Louis d’Albufera
N.p, c. 21st December 1904, 2 pages in-8, mourning paper
“The sad embarrassment that I am…”
Autograph letter signed “Marcel Proust” to Robert de Flers
[Paris, November 6, 7 or 8, 1913] (1) 4 pages in-8
“The total work will be called In Search of Lost Time”
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Robert de Flers
[Paris, 16th or 17th November 1913], 4 pp. in-4
«Keep in you the source of youthful memories»
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Billy
[Paris, second half of July, 1907] 5 pages in-8°
“But isn’t it enough that you are the appearance to rejoice a heart that flees from the truth?”
Typescript with autograph additions for the first edition of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
One page in-12 oblong glued on in-4 laid paper
“I loved Gilberte too much not to find Swann’s relationships desirable”
[20th November 1886] Original albumen print from period. Cabinet format (147 x 106 mm), mounted on thick card in the photographer’s name.
Famous portrait of Dr. Adrien Proust who was then fifty-two years old
Autograph letter signed « Jacques Rivière » [to André Salmon]
Paris, 3rd May [1921 ?], 2 p. in-8°
« I will fix you soon »
A set of seventeen autograph letters signed, accompanied with an original drawing
Guernesey, Paris, Toulon and Lunel, between 1885 and 1917, 41 p. in various formats
« It was during one of those evenings, in the middle of a storm like this, that my grandfather had to write Gilliatt’s battles »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Camden Place, Chislehurst, 10 10bre [October 1873], 4 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« When you want an unhealthy share of popularity, you don’t know how to absolve or condemn »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Camden Place, Chislehurst [January 1873], 8 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« The Emperor’s rapid death has, so to speak, awakened the public conscience. »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie », to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Camden Place, Chislehurst, 16th March 1880, 4 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« I hope, upon my return, either to be stronger or no longer need to rely on my strengths »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Farnborough Hill, 17th November 1892, 3 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« Never before have we kissed and armed so much in Europe. As long as it is a guarantee of peace ! »
Autograph letter signed « Edmond de Goncourt » to a lady
Saint Gratien, 21 7bre [September] [18]90, 2 p. in-8
« I don’t know anything except that Mrs Strauss does sports and turf in the water towns »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Prince’s gate SW [London], 26 November [1881], 5 p. in-8 on mourning paper
« The widow of Napoleon III remains and will remain close to those who died in exile »
14 autograph letters signed correspondence to Juliette Massenet
Paris and Versailles, between 1901 and 1926, 26 p. in various formats
“I am too flattered by my Master’s desire not to make available to you my mediocre piano faculties”
Autograph letter signed “Hahn” to Léon Bessand
S.l [25, avenue de Villiers à Paris, 1892], 4 p. in-12 oblong with envelope
“Although robust and powerful in appearance, I’m not very strong”
Autograph letter signed “FMauriac” to Louis Artus
[Paris], 31 Oct[ober 19]20, 4 p. in-8,autograph envelope attached
“I have not yet had time to heal from my youth”
Autograph letter signed “Henri Barbusse” to a friend
Villa Célestine, Antibes [September 1919], 1 p. in-4
“I consider it the duty of the man of letters to draw the attention of whom right on the works that are worth it”
Name card with autograph additions to a “dear friend”
Janv[ier] 1904, 1 p. in-24 in purple ink
Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to René Laporte
Paris, 22 June 1925, 2 pp. in-4
“C’est Proust et la bande de Balbec”
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