Lucien DAUDET (1878-1946) Set of autograph manuscripts; more than 750 pages mainly in-fol. Important set of manuscripts, mostly working, some unfinished, and largely unpublished. My childhood. Memoirs of a very small boy (ca. 120 ff., plus partial typescript). Des sources à la mer (small notebook in-4 of 52 pages, cloth-covered cardboard), childhood memories, dedicated at the top "to Maman L.". L'Âge de raison, souvenirs, ms dated at the end La Roche 1921 Cap d'Ail 1922 (publ. Flammarion 1923; 63 ff.). "Memoirs of Lucien Daudet (continuation of Les Yeux neufs and L'Âge de raison)" (67 p., plus typescript). Journal 1915: "These notes taken during the war begin in January 1915. The notebook of my Diary of 1914 disappeared in 1917, in the region of Aisne"... (67 ff.). He evokes his mother, the war, Count Etienne de Beaumont, the Society for the Relief of the Military Wounded, Mgr Gardey, Abbé Mugnier, Jean Cocteau, Reynaldo Hahn, Ramon Fernandez, the Countess Georges Mniszech, Henry Céard, Marcel Proust, the Princess of Courlande, Jacque-Émile Blanche, the Count of Hinnisdal, etc. Radio, for a radio program about his father (3 p., with typescript). Reliques, moving memories on the end of his mother's life, May 1940 (24 p.). Le Professeur de piano, short story (1909, 3 versions, 36, 18 and 37 ff.). Les Malentendus, provincial mores (several versions of the 10 chapters, about 80 ff.); plus "Notes pour Branchu". Évolutions, novel (4 quires, chap. III to V, 50 ff). Réflexions sur une ancienne province (41 ff). Le Pont suspendu (about 30 ff., plus sketches and typescript). L'Impératrice Eugénie, 2 versions of a conference (10 and 10 p., plus drafts and corrected typescripts). Preface for Le Sang, puissance de vie by Dr. Joseph ROY (1941; 5 p.). Black cloth notebook with the beginning of the novel Évolutions (2 p.) and notes for an essay on Balzac (13 p.); plus typescript of a study on Napoleon and Balzac. Attached is the typescript of a tale : Une nuit de Noël.