COLETTE (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as). AUTOGRAPHIC L - Lot 117

COLETTE (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as). AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED to her friend the actress MARGUERITE MORENO (1871-1948). 4 pages on 2 sheets (25 X 21.5 cm) blue paper, stamped envelope with "28.9.[19]26" stamp. LONG, BEAUTIFUL LETTER FULL OF JOY. Colette has just left her Breton home in Rozven and moved into one of her new residences, "La Treille muscate" in Saint-Tropez. "This morning I leave you to watch for the Galeries Lafayette de Nice truck on the road to my house, delivering luxury items: a three-legged stove, two kerosene stoves and three saucepans, plus two small box springs and a rice broom. It's with this fund that we're moving in the day after tomorrow, my dear soul. No kidding[...] But don't worry: the house, once moved in, will be a delightful provincial house, shaded, in the middle of its flat little land, on the edge of its flat sea, under its old mimosas, its oleanders and its terebinths. Only its former owners made it a little ugly. You'll see, you'll see! This terrace that extends the bedroom on the 1st floor, this terrace that welcomes the beautiful country view and the pale blue sea view, you'll see, you'll see!" Colette then inquires about the fate of her correspondent, then returns to her: "About myself, nothing to say. The physical joy that awaits me anywhere but Paris, a black and salty skin. Maurice [Goudeket] too. How beautiful this country is, all juicy with unexpected greenery! And what fresh, windy heat! I'm off to my empty house, full of promises and ambitions. I kiss you as I love you. Tell Pierrou a thousand things, if I may say so, friendly things, for Maurice and for his Colette, and Iceluy Maurice kisses your beautiful hands that the sun does not blacken. Your Colette".