Autograph letter signed ("Pierre Maël").
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium.
€ 180,00
Beautiful letter, written only months before Causse's premature death, very likely to Charles Vincens, to thank him for helping the "poor girl" Rose Héré and for comments on a novel entitled "Fleurs des Roses" that doesn't seem to have been published. Rose Héré was the daughter of a fisherman from Ushant who had risked her life to save 14 shipwrecked seamen in the night of the 1 November 1903. The deed that Causse is referring to, was a financially substantial price awarded to Héré by the Académie de Marseille, that Vincent was an influential member of, for saving the seamen of Marseillais origin.
The letter in full: "Bien que très-souffrant, je tiens à vous adresser un nouveau 'Merci' bien cordial, bien reconnaissant pour ce que vous avez fait en faveur de Rose Héré. Grâce à votre intervention cette pauvre fille sera jusqu'à la fin de ses jours à l'abri du besoin. Merci aussi de ce que vous m'écrivez au sujet de mon roman 'Fleur des Roses'. Je vous assure de mes sentiments de bien dévouée sympathie".
Causse and Vincens shared the penname Pierre Maël, under which they wrote highly popular adventure stories for an adolescent audience.
Somewhat creased.
