François-Adrien BOIELDIEU (1775-1834). L.A.S., Sunday morning [1799], to Germain Lavigne; 1 page in-8, address. To his collaborator: "Where are you at with your work for me? Have you arranged the music of our Emma for me? Did you approve of my observations and those made to me? Are you doing something for me that I can put to music right away and that can be played in two months? I do not hear from you and I am afraid that the Gymnasium will make you forget Feydeau. I would be all the more angry because I have nothing good to do, and I rely only on you and Scribe. Martin [baritone Jean-Blaise Martin] is tormenting me to do something for him this winter. I told him that he is helping me to be close to you two by tormenting you a little ... [Emma ou la Prisonnière, a comic opera by Boieldieu and Cherubini, premiered at the Théâtre Montansier on September 12, 1799; only fragments of it remain.]