René Martin-Guelliot to Jean Paulhan, 1912, 4

Please consider number. Perhaps it was the concern to do so that influenced how I was affected by your remark. Pareau writes to me: "I had a headache and now I'm going on a trip." Every page that he or you don't send me, it's me who has to do it, if we want the number to appear. But I also have my headaches. Collet will send me something. But if it was agreed that each month, he, you and Pareau each sent me 1/6 of n° c. to right. 8 pages (approximately, there is nothing fateful), it would be a great relief for me, and I will do [sic] my part, 3/6 c. to right. the other half!, much more easily.
I know very well the good will that all 3 of you have and the obstacles that you have and that I do not have (professional obligations, etc.). But still, I wonder if you "realize" (in the English sense) that it is I who must fill the holes and that without that the number would not appear. If I had written to Pareau for my part, what he wrote to me for his, "I had a headache the day I was planning to work, and then I had my planned excursions to carry out", what would he have thought? If you see him, I would like you to talk to him about it. It seems to me that you have the impression that the number comes by itself, just as children think that letters go by themselves in the post without the human intervention of employees. Okay. Of course, this without reproach. It's a feeling that I completely understand.

Yours sincerely,
R.M.G.