HALÉVY, Daniel. Two signed, handwritten postcards addressed - Lot 170

HALÉVY, Daniel. Two signed, handwritten postcards addressed to Henri de Montherlant. 2 pages, in-12 format (142 x 112 mmm), with addresses and postmarks on the reverse. Paris, January 8, 1923, and August 3, 1925. 1923, regarding Henry de Montherlant’s novel *Le Songe*: “You ask me which pages I have read. Here they are: 222. ‘As Alban was searching…’ to 237, to the end [...] so it was only a very brief reading, but a very enjoyable one.” 1925: He thanks Henry de Montherlant for not having forgotten his books, “which seem to me to have almost ceased to exist,” and mentions his work on Cicero. On the back of this letter is a paragraph in another hand featuring Alban, a recurring character in Henry de Montherlant’s work.