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Lot n° 307

Benjamin constant (1767-1830)

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L.A.S., Ivry sur Seine 21 September 1823, at the bookseller Adolphe Bossange; 1 page in-8, address. Indisposed, he postponed their appointment and asked him to inform Mr. Fourmier; on Wednesday, "I could be at Mr. Didot's house at the time you tell me"... An L.S., March 18, 1822, is attached to the confessed Guérin, concerning the case of Mrs. de Ménars: "there is an urgent need to have the inventory of fixtures recorded [...] so that at the end of the lease I have no quarrel to fear".... Plus a letter dictated in his name, November 14, 1830, to Mr. Treuenthal, in Versailles, which he would receive when his affairs called him in Paris, but his health and "the meetings of the Conseil d'Etat and the Chamber made it impossible for him to indicate a fixed time"...