GÉRICAULT Théodore (1791-1824).

L.A., [early 1822], to Mme TROUILLARD, rue Chantereine n° 10 à Paris; 2 pages in-8, address. Beautiful loving letter. "Mr. Parseval took the trouble this morning to come to my house and as I was fast asleep they were afraid to wake me up and so I was deprived of the pleasure of seeing him, but he left me a letter in which he asks me to take him to Mr. H. VERNET. As this occasion is very agreeable to me since it puts me in a position to discharge in some way in advance a service which he himself has undertaken to render me, I answer him"; but, not knowing his address, he begs Mme Trouillard to have the letter delivered to him. "In the evening, if you will do me the honour of receiving me, you will see me humble and repentant for having done more harm than I wished to do, and for having put you in the position of judging you more rigorously than I would ever have dared. Can you think that I find pleasure in seeing you guilty? If it were, on the contrary, a means of testing you, how happy I would be to see you so sensitive to my unjust reproaches, my trial is not over and you still have hard things to endure, if it were wiser to spare us both a series of torments? You see, get rid of me, but no, keep me, that is the best thing you can do, I love you well, I love you severely, it is always to be loved after all, I would have you near me now that you would not doubt it, where would be my severity. You can only be unworthy or intoxicating to me"...