Letter from Pierre Reverdy to Jacques Lipchitz

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Full text in translation:
'Monsieur unsubscribed,
I communicated your kind letter to our director who then noted your unsubscription. You will be given according to his orders the sum of 4.50 francs difference of the N-es [numbers?] Received and to be received.
In addition, our director has shown his astonishment at your decision, not believing, he said, to have anything to reproach himself with in your regard. But since you espouse the enmities of our enemies whose insolence you please to endure without flinching, he does not believe in his conviction [...] that a contrary attitude would be more noble and at the same time more skilful. However, he notes once again that many people carry without any difficulty and with the same casually from one to the other to their behind what they were still wearing the day before [...] It is that the differences are perhaps not these two frontiers of the human body. Before us, enthomologists have observed that earthworms move by their head as well as by the other [...]. We [...] could not reasonably go against that.
Receive Monsieur the assurance of our most sincere greetings.
P. Reverdy '

Though not all the hints in this letter are clear, it is obvious concerned some confrontation between Lipchitz and Reverdy, or, wider, the circle of 'Nord-Sud' or Surrealistes.

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