PROUST, Marcel. One unpublished autograph letter signed ('Votre Marcel') and one unpublished autograph letter to Lucien Daudet ('Mon cher petit'), the first n.p. [Boulevard Malesherbes], n.d. ('Mercredi'), both to console and reproach him, and giving advice; reasuring him about Madame Daudet's health, 'mais elle est très très dèsolée de votre douleur, de votre départ, du mystère que vous n'avez voulu eclaircir à personne'; assuring him that one day this departure for Quiberon will seem like something very exceptional; giving further news of Madame Daudet and her family, and telling him what anxiety his telegram caused him and that he took some trional and Félicie [the maid] forgot to wake him up; advising Lucien to take trional too, with very precise instructions, asking for news of him and if he has moments of respite; 14 pages, 8vo; the second (unsigned) n.p, n.d., explaining a mutual misunderstanding about a meeting; 'Cette nuit je me suis couché à 6h et levé à 8. Promené avec Mr Proust come vous dites (très Lundi de Pâques) et déjeuné seul chez Larue où je ne vous ai pas fait dire de venir croyant que vous m'aviez mis au pain et à l'eau'; referring to other social arrangements and ending affectionately, asking him to forget at Cap Martin about his 'petites ou grandes vulgarités', 4 pages, 8vo (together 18 pages, 8vo). Proust writes in the first letter that he was deeply wounded by the telegram, '"Pourquoi m'avez-vous abandonné!"'. Lucien who was described by his contemporaries as highly strung, and sometimes in his youth given to hysterical behaviour, was later to write warmly of Proust's great kindness. As the son and brother of doctors, Proust frequently offered medical advice to his friends, as in this letter. The second letter also mentions the Prousts' old family friends, the Duplays, who are coming to dine, and other acquaintances. (2)