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Notes on his departure for the Americas

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Author André Breton
People cited Austin, Edmond Bomsel, Nicolas Calas, Denoël, Esteban Francès, Gordon, Pierre Mabille, Wolfgang Paalen, Albert Skira, Raoul Ubac, Roberto Echauren Matta, Jean Paulhan, Benjamin Péret, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy

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Handwritten manuscript notes by André Breton, dating from mid-March 1941.
Write to... Skira, Paulhan, Denoël, Péret, Mabille, Paalen, Matta, Francis, Tanguy, Seligmann, Ubac, and a few others. Do the shopping, sort out the affairs. Leave for the United States. These few pages taken from a notebook, these telegrams, constitute a snapshot of a pivotal moment in Breton’s life, in that winter of 1941 when he impatiently awaited being allowed finally to leave the south of France. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten texts, undated [mid-March 1941].
- 4 in-18 pages of a notebook of handwritten notes by Breton in green ink. One of the pages is headed ‘Oran’; here Breton anticipates various purchases to be made during the first stopover in Oran [on 28 March 1941], on the ship the Capitaine Paul Lemerle that carries him, along with his family, to the United States. [Auction catalogue, 2003]