COCTEAU Jean L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau",[1938 ?], to a friend playwright[Charles de Peyret-Chappuis ?]; 1 page in-4 at 37, rue Cambon. Interesting letter about theatre and staging. "My dear friend You are performing three acts (the last of which is a very beautiful act.) A woman plays them - and does not hide behind the staging of the Cartel. The dress from the last pretty act. It's a killer dress. I congratulate you and explain your triumph very well. Green and the province's repressed bombs are playing their part. I wanted to write to you (badly) etc. etc. etc. what I felt in the atrocious little room of Rochefort. Come on. Come on. Keep going. You will win the battle. The battle against the old gang habits and the Cartel. ...] It is necessary to kill the staging that crushes the texts and the Trébor-Sacha-Printemps gang"...