BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules)

Set of 2 letters: - L.A.S. to Amédée Pommier. S.l.n.d. [December 1874]. 1 p. in-8. Red ink. Retained envelope. "It's a shame not to have an André Chénier at home, but it's very nice to have a friend like you, who will lend me his. I'll only keep it until Monday. But what I keep for you, in my heart, is for all my life; - Your friend [...]". Large, beautiful signature. Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VII, 1874/62, p. 244. - L.A.S. to Francis Lacombe. S.l.n.d. [postmarked February 15, 1850]. 1 p. in-8. Black ink. Address on verso of second leaf. "I have just seen your National Assembly. I was a little astonished, and as friends owe each other the truth, this is the cause of my astonishment. You told me that my friend Louis Couture would have an article the next day - he didn't have an article. And he was so unnamed that he wrote to you, as I see it, to claim what I think you rather dishonestly call authorship of his book. Your rectification has an impolite and mocking tone which is not what one should take, all opinions aside, when speaking of friends of friends [...]".