GIDE André (1869-1951) L.A.S. "André Gide", Cuverville, August 6, 1912, to Jean COCTEAU; 2 pages in-4. Precious letter giving her first appreciation of the work of her young admirer. [Cocteau had just published his third collection of poems, Sophocles' Dance.] "If I had found them bad, your worms, you would already know it, and I would have badly forgiven you for the big disappointment they would have caused me. But nothing is more difficult for me than a letter that I can only fill with praise. You are prodigiously, perilously well gifted. With all my gloom I smile at your youth. How would I judge your thoughts? And how can you criticize dance, when the dancer is charming?"....