CELINE LOUIS FERDINAND: (1894-1961) French Novelist. Known as Celine, being his real name Destouches...

CELINE LOUIS FERDINAND: (1894-1961) French Novelist. Known as Celine, being his real name Destouches, a controversial writer because of his antisemitism. Unusual A.L.S., with his real name `Louis Destouches´, two pages, 4to, n.p, [Paris], on the 22nd, n.d., to his mistress and friend Cillie Ambor, in French. Celine states in part `A thousand times sorry, I did respond to you immediately, but I kept the letter in my pocket with some others… I am very crossed these days because of a hundred petty stories which bother me here and there...´ Further saying `I am happy to learn that your gymnastic seems to improve without much pain, Better also for the popo. This little lover seems to me very kind and convenient to occupy the little time that you have for love. You are the most kind and devoted of the cute Cillie... You will be happy if you do not ask for impossible things. But alas, only the impossible is admirable! I know that well. Folded, with very small age wear to the edges, and an ink stain, otherwise G to VG £600-900 Celine meets Cillie Ambor for the first time on 4th September 1932, an Austrian gymnastic professor of Jewish origin. When she gets ill, Celine welcomes her, occupying Elizabeth Craig´s room at 98 Rue Lepic, and takes care of her. After two weeks of close relationship Cillie returned to Vienna. For seven years they will keep regular correspondence, although only met very occasionally. In December 1938 Cillie´s husband Max Pam died in the Dachau camp, and she decided to live Europe and went to Australia.