Fernand FLEURET (1884-1945). L.A.S., Mirasol Saturday [April-May 1913?], to Raoul DUFY 3 pages and a half in-8. He has received the proofs from Gauthier-Villars, and finds that "the wood is a little high", and instructs Dufy to take care of the typography. He has sent "the paper to Apollinaire", and hopes that the advertisement will appear in the next issue of Soirées de Paris. "Where are you with Amis et Amiles? [...] When you are a minister, you will demand punctuality". He wonders what Dufy is going to paint in Fréjus: "It's as flat as your hand! He was exhausted from Paris, "where I worked like a mule [...] Here, I loll around like a calf, as scantily clad as a Negro king". He saw La Ciotat again: "the country really looked as if it had been home to 2 great men - you'll have a fine monument in Le Havre and a street in Lyon. That, at least, is the grace I wish you"... He is going to work for Georgin (Épinal picture painter): "I have already fired 50 pistol shots to get into the war atmosphere"... On the blank part of the last page, a pen drawing by Dufy depicting an arched porch. Enclosed: F. Fleuret, Éloge de Raoul Dufy (Paris, 1928), extract from the 3rd issue of Arts et Métiers graphiques, printed in 100 numbered copies, in-4, cover detached. Letter a.s. from Dufy with drawing on the title: "au Commandant Neuzillet souvenir de Raoul Dufy et de" Fernand Fleuret (who signed); at the bottom of the page, drawing of a sailboat in blue ink.