writer and varieté artist (1845-19...). 4 autograph letters signed, autograph poem signed, and autograph document with three signatures. Paris and no place. 8vo and 4to. 7 pp. on 7 ff. Addendum.
$ 334 / 300 €
(91733/BN61056)
Business correspondence with the publishing house Heugel & Cie. about ceding a copyright. - A cover letter dated 12 December, about sending poetry and an engraving of his mother's portrait, and asking for royalties: "J'espère que les deux poésies vous plairont et je vous prie d'agrées le dessin ci-joint, en attendant qu'on vous apporte le portrait de ma mère [i. e. Léocadie Doze] - Gravure de Grévedon - que j'ai fait rechercher [...]". - The second joined letter of 14 December with a request for a final payment in return for the transfer of a copyright to Heugel: "Si j'insiste et je vous demande une dernière somme de 'Vingt frs' pour seul complément du prix de la cession de poésies que je vous ai fait [...]".
- With a version of the poem "La Chanson de la Brise" written by E. Roger de Beauvoir: "Quand la lune argente les eaux / Que les peupliers de la rise / Frissonnaient, lentement j'arrive, / Glissant à l'ombre des roseaux [...]". - An undated letter with a request for a further payment of some ten francs to buy warm clothes, such as are owned even by the poorest but not by himself: "En m'accordant une dizaine de francs, vous feriez une bonne action, car je souffre de me gainer en ce moment et par le froid qu'il fait, de vêtements que le plus pauvre posséderait [...]". - A cover letter dated 20 December, asking for another 20 francs, about sending some small compositions and hoping for repayment in January: "Je vous prie de choisir dans les petites compositions ci-jointes [...] je vous engage ma parole d'un remboursement en Janvier [...]". - Eugène was the first son of the novelist and playwright Roger de Beauvoir (Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger, 1809-66) and the actress and writer Léocadie Doze (1823-59), of whom Henri Grévedon created a portrait in 1841. - Attached to the joined letters is a printed receipt "Au Ménestrel" with a handwritten entry for the payment of twice 20 francs to Beauvoir. Two letters and the poem with collection stamp of the "Archives Ménestrel". Two of the joined letters with some marginal defects, the cession with some ink staining, the poem showing light foxing, one of the loose letters somewhat worn and slightly duststained, with small marginal defects and small tears to the folds..