Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript, Les Horreurs de la guerre, [1928] ; 2-160 pages in-fol. Collection of essays written in exile, second volume of Courrier des Pays-Bas, published by Bernard Grasset in March 1928. The manuscript, with erasures and corrections, and a few clippings pasted into the text, includes, with the Introduction, the following texts: Les rythmes de l'homme ; Du balcon de l'Europe ; La tension socialiste ; La tension vaticane ; Le rythme du temps, conte philosophique ; Rythmes et cadences de la prose française ; Le rythme des vies d'exception ; Charles Maurras et son temps ; Invocation à Goya ; De la combativité cellulaire ; Le combat de l'homme contre lui-même ; Aphorismes sur la polémique et l'invective ; Un philosophe du combat : Nietzsche. Attached are a few notes and letters, and a typescript, Un fléau de l'an 2227 le Napus. Attached is the file for Mélancholia, the third volume of Courrier des Pays-Bas, published by Bernard Grasset in June 1928. The manuscript (approx. 50 p. in-fol.), with erasures and corrections, and a few clippings pasted into the text, in a brown folder bearing a draft outline, includes: Melancholia; The ambience of amorous desire and that of knowledge; The realm of the olfactory; Remarks on fashions; The ambience of tuberculosis and cancer; The role of ambience in vision and hearing. Plus 6 p. in-4 of sketches and notes.