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868 - NERVAL, Gérard de (1808–1855). Autograph letter signed “Gérard,” addressed to his friend, the medievalist Michel FRANCISQUE (1809–1887). No place, no date. 1 p., in-12. Address on the reverse of the second leaf.
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NERVAL, Gérard de (1808–1855). Autograph letter signed “Gérard,” addressed to his friend, the medievalist Michel FRANCISQUE (1809–1887). No place, no date. 1 p., in-12. Address on the reverse of the second leaf. Unpublished letter. Regarding a lost manuscript: “Take back what you entrusted to me. It has made my life bitter. It has made me shed more tears than Griselot will ever draw from the beautiful eyes of the Germans. Imagine, O Michel, that I thought it was lost; a sense of [?] neatness had led me to have it rebound before returning it to you, but the publisher had moved and then misplaced the manuscript during the move. In short, a lamentable story. Now, my stern and unjust friend, I shall dare to appear before you again; I will come to see you one of these mornings […].”
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