Lucien DAUDET (1878-1946) 48 L.A.S., 1892-1940 and s.d., to Lucien and/or Marthe DAUDET (or their son François); 128 pages in-8 or in-4. Beautiful and interesting family correspondence. Some letters are signed with fanciful pseudonyms: Durochard, Téteigne ; 3 are illustrated with small drawings... The first letters are addressed to his brother Léon, " Frérot chéri ". Lucien gives news from Champrosay in 1892: amateur theater; visits of Edmond de Goncourt, the Rosny brothers, Porel (who is mounting Madame Sans-Gêne), Frantz Jourdain, etc.; his painter's studio; then a stay in Tours before his mother's installation in Touraine... From Monte Carlo and then from the Château de La Roche in 1924, he wrote to his sister-in-law Marthe, evoking with emotion the tragedy of Philippe Daudet's death; he spoke of Reynaldo Hahn. On July 1, 1935, two long and very funny letters recounted his stay in Martigues and the inauguration ceremonies of the Fontvielle mill, with a number of anecdotes and gossip. From Paris, 31 rue de Bellechasse, he commented on Léon's works: Les Universaux, Panorama de la République; he reacted to the Popular Front... In August 1938, he stayed with his mother at the Château de La Roche (near Chargé); he advised Lucien on a biography of Marie-Antoinette. The letters of 1939-1940 are related to the war and Hitler; long almost daily letters to "Marthe chérie" about the state of his mother's health; then Lucien is inhabited by the memory of his mother (who died on April 23, 1940); worries about the succession... Two letters are addressed to his nephew François. We join 11 L.A.S. to his " Maman chérie " Julia Daudet, 1900-1925 and s.d., beautiful and tender correspondence. Plus a file " Dactylos letters to Maman chérie de Farnborough Hill " (1900-1914).