HALÉVY, Daniel. Correspondence addressed to Louis Brun. - Lot 169

HALÉVY, Daniel. Correspondence addressed to Louis Brun. 3 pages, in-12 format (137 x 108 mm); 2 letter cards with addresses and postmarks on the back (180 x 138 mm, trimmed at the margin to 160 x 114 mm); 1 page in-4 (268 x 250 mm); 2 pages in-8 (195 x 152 mm) on printed letterhead from the Hotel Excelsior in Rome, with envelope. 1924–1932. Interesting correspondence with Louis Brun (1884–1939), Bernard Grasset’s right-hand man, for whom Daniel Halévy edited the *Cahiers verts* series. May 25, 2024: Regarding the publication of André Maurois’s *Disraeli*. “You speak like a businessman: ‘Such-and-such will deliver 20,000 copies to us; let him give 500 to X—we’ll agree to that’... but there is only one Maurois, there is only one Disraeli; Maurois will create his masterpiece with Disraeli—that is what you fundamentally fail to understand, and that is what hurts me.” October 26, 1924: He raises questions about various upcoming publications, including works by Ramuz and Maurras. April 30, 1927: Regarding the typographic layout of the title page for Princess Bibesco’s *Catherine-Paris*. Daniel Halévy offers his corrections bluntly and concludes: “Don’t shoot me.” April 7, 1929: He requests a statement of his accounts and asks for the calculation of his bonus tied to the publication of André Malraux’s *Les Conquérants*. November 13, 1932: “Today our convention begins. An oracular, sustenance-seeking, and cubic convention—all in the same hotel. We look at one another like children who don’t yet dare to play together. And what of Grasset?”