Maurice Sailland dit CURNONSKY (1872-1956). 3 autograph notebooks, 1904-1928; approx. 82 leaves in-12 (plus blank ff.).
1904-1908. Notebook (20ff): addresses (mainly ladies); "Volumes chez Toulet"; accounts: with Willy, VP (Vie Parisienne); appointments; list of articles in Qui lit rit (including Le Courrier de Fred and Pitchoum), talks; projects for novels... 1927-1928. 16 ff. detached from a diary: lists of his projects and works (including a Dictionnaire gastronomique): accounts ("On me doit" and "Par profits et pertes" including "P.J.T. [Toulet] 85,000", expenses); appointments, lunches and dinners; list of his mistresses, with dates; "Mes Titres honorifiques!"including "Prince des Gastronomes" in 1927; list of members of the Académie de l'Humour; "Ce que j'ai écrit pour autant qu'il m'en souvienne": for Willy, with Toulet, for the Duc de Montpensier, Dranem, Baret, Marcel Rouff, Derys, Bienstock..., and "Seul".Agenda 1913 (46 ff. uncropped). Lists of writers: humorists, "Ceusses qui ont du talent en 1927", "Les Primaires" (Brulat, Ohnet...), "Les Fort en gueule" (Tailhade, Bloy...), "Les Invertébrés" (Lebey, Barbusse, Rolland...), "Les Exquis illisibles" (Mallarmé, Giraudoux, Valéry, Claudel), "Les Amuseurs", "Les Chroniqueurs", "Les Critiques", "Régionalistes", "Les Raseurs", "Les Constipés et aultres onanistes" (Fromentin, Amiel), "Les Saltimbanques" (Les Rostand's...), "Les Visuels", "Le Style Youpin"; "Les Lacrymaux", "Les Fiottes" (Loti, Lorrain, Gide (provéditeur), Cocteau...), "Les demi dieux", "Les Maîtres", "Les plus grands C... que j'ai connus", etc.miscellaneous notes: on Stendhal, Romanticism, "Pour mémoires"; appointments; "Ragots": "Tigre is said to be the son of Maricotte and Pierre Louÿs. Maurice Rostand is said to be a pederast"...; Quatrains; "Quelques-uns de mes titre, grades et fonctions"; "Ce qu'on me doit", including "P.J. To.... 289,000fr. Or"...
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