Lucien DAUDET (1878-1946) Set of autograph manuscripts; over 750 pages, mainly folio. Important set of manuscripts, mostly working, some unfinished, and largely unpublished. My childhood. Memoirs of a Little Boy (approx. 120 ff., plus partial typescript). Des sources à la mer (small 52-page in-4 notebook, cloth-covered boards), childhood memories, dedicated at the top "to Maman L.". L'Âge de raison, souvenirs, ms dated at end La Roche 1921 Cap d'Ail 1922 (publ. Flammarion 1923; 63 ff.). "Mémoires de Lucien Daudet (suite des Yeux neufs et de l'Âge de raison)" (67 p., plus typescript). Journal 1915: "These notes taken during the war begin in January 1915. The notebook of my 1914 Diary disappeared in 1917, in the Aisne region"... (67 ff.). In it, he writes about his mother, the war, Count Étienne de Beaumont, the Société de secours aux blessés militaires, Mgr Gardey, Abbé Mugnier, Jean Cocteau, Reynaldo Hahn, Ramon Fernandez, Countess Georges Mniszech, Henry Céard, Marcel Proust, the Princess of Courlande, Jacque-Émile Blanche, Count d'Hinnisdal, and more. Radio, for a radio program about his father (3 p., with typescript). Reliques, moving recollections of his mother's end of 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 10 chap., approx. 80 ff.); plus "Notes pour Branchu". Évolutions, novel (4 cahiers, chap. III to V, 50 ff). Réflexions sur une ancienne province (41 ff). Le Pont suspendu (approx. 30 ff., plus sketches and typescript). L'Impératrice Eugénie, 2 versions of a lecture (10 and 10 p., plus drafts and corrected typescripts). Preface to 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. A typescript of a tale is included: Une nuit de Noël.