Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 2 L.A.S. "LouisFerd" and... Lot 380

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 2 L.A.S. "LouisFerd" and "LFerd", Copenhagen December 1947, to his friend the publisher Jean-Gabriel Daragnès; 1 and 2 pages in-fol. On Daragnès's visit to Copenhagen. December 28. He will be waiting for her at the station on January 5. "I write to Marie C. [Canavaggia] that she bring you these two manuscripts at last! the bugger! The money we'll be able to get from them will be for her trip here, the wretch. Let her dry up... No more Sailboat! I've broken the moorings. His purification trial has been postponed "sine die", so I can die of lack of oats! I'm cancelling. Clause XI of my contract. [...] Popol [Gen Paul] can't be much fun when it comes to intimacy, even with the goddess, he's got too many ghosts around him even for muscadet! He doesn't enjoy it as much as he thought he would... He'd better come and see us"... Wednesday [late December]. Mikkelsen has booked rooms at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, "admirably situated, 2 steps from the Embassy, right in the middle of town, all the Michtagons only stay there". Details of the exhibition for which Daragnès is coming. Céline draws a map of the area, with the square and the "equestrian statue", the hotel, the French Embassy, the Opera House, the "Palais École des Bx Arts", the "Rue Bredgade → Mikkelsen"...