Autograph letter, signed "Charles Baudelaire", [to Eugène Pelletan]. Monday, October 31, 1864; 3 pages in-8°, small slits and holes. Unpublished letter in the published correspondence of La Pléiade (Ed. 1973).
"You were kind enough to advance me, last February, 600 francs from the cash register of your newspaper, on the condition that I deliver a news item, and a variety article, if the news wasn't enough to pay my debt. Mr. Pauchet already had in his hands The Mystery of Marie Roget, a true masterpiece, which I can praise, since I am only the translator. The need to redo a few pages and touch up the whole thing made me take up the manuscript again, which according to M. Pauchet, was to be printed immediately after M.M. de Goncourt's novel [...]. I had to leave suddenly for Brussels, and from there, from May onwards, I wrote several letters, some to Mr Noël
Parfait, asking him to return the manuscript to Mr Pauchet, others to Mr Pauchet to ask him to ask for the manuscript back from Mr Noël Parfait. ...Nothing is more difficult for an absentee than to govern the affairs of the law; for the past six months, I have been experiencing this. [...] One more comment: Do you think it is necessary for me to correct here the proofs I will send you: right away, or can I have enough confidence in the proofreader of the National Opinion?"... [The Mystery of Marie Roget (Le Mystère de Marie Roget) is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in three parts in November 1842, December 1842 and February 1843 in the Ladies' Companion and translated into French by Charles Baudelaire for the collection Histoires grotesques et sérieux].
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