STEIN GERTRUDE: (1874-1946) American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector who hosted a ...

STEIN GERTRUDE: (1874-1946) American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector who hosted a famous salon in Paris. An excellent A.L.S., Gertrude, four pages, 8vo, Rue de Fleurus (Paris), n.d., to Rene Crevel (‘My dear dear Rene’) on Stein’s printed stationery featuring the quotation A rose is a rose is a rose taken from her poem Sacred Emily. Stein commences her letter writing ‘A wicked girl to not to marry Rene but perhaps Rene she will marry you yet, or do you not want to now’, continuing ‘It goes so quick these days being ready to marry again that she may be ready almost any day……perhaps you will be ready to marry again too dear old Rene’ and adding that they are sending a little consolation prize with all of their heart. Stein adds that Crevel will have heard by now from Bernard Fay ‘and perhaps you can do what he asks, but don’t do anything you ought not to do just to please me, what will please me most is to have an all well Rene’, and also reports ‘Otherwise there is a great deal of the same old news, the new friends grow old and the old friends sometimes grow new and sometimes not, but then perhaps Paris being both small and large is all fairly comfortable’. A letter of fine content and excellent association. A few minor creases and some light dust staining to the final side of the bifolium. About VG

Rene Crevel (1900-1935) French writer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1928, during a short stay in Berlin, Crevel had met and fallen in love with Dorothea ‘Mopsa’ Sternheim, daughter of the German playwright Carl Sternheim.

Bernard Fay (1893-1978) French historian of Franco-American relations, a friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.