Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 4L.A.S., 1943, to Marie... Lot 372

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 4L.A.S., [1943], to Marie Bell; 3pages in-8 and 2pages in-4, address on verso of 1st letter (torn when opened). [February 19]. "A thousand apologies! Not next week! I'm busy with evening work! I'll come and see you in the morning"... 13th [May (?)]. "Dear Marie I don't know how to express to you all my gratitude and my desolation... I give up this sale. For you, for me, all these talks are tedious, humiliating, abominable! Fuck them all! Forget it! And a thousand thanks! I'll come to Joinville to see you on Monday"... 3rd. "Dear Marie Believe me, I'm very sorry to have involved you the other evening in such a stupid, painful step. I dare not appear again. What can I expect from this little bugger, all fluttering with dust? Nothing, of course! To the museum! What was I thinking! I'm ashamed! Ah! Tartar armies should spend a few days in subsidized theaters. Only a few days... Poor Almanzor [Lucette] begs your pardon! - (I'm solely responsible) it won't happen to me again. When will I have a splendid carriage instead of a horse-drawn carriage? This is what I dream of for you. To be splashed! Païva really and no longer his "6th""... 5 [June (?)] "Not next week if you don't mind. I have too many headaches. I'm working too hard. I'm bewildered. The other week before departure. I'll come and see you at the theater or at St Maurice".... Lettres à Marie Bell (Du Lérot), nos2, 3, 4, 5.