Charles GOUNOD (1818-1893). L.A.S., [mid-October 1854?], to the photographer Auguste Adolphe Bertsch; 1 1/2 pages in-8, address. "I would have liked to find the time to go and tell you myself that we have all decided for the portrait leaning on the hand as a publication; but the one in profile has found such sympathy in the family that I will ask you not to destroy the photograph without giving me a few copies, if it is not indiscreet. As for the front one, I will only ask you for three for the family. I am so squatted on The Bloody Nun that Sebastopol is nothing compared to the fight I am in at the moment. Excuse therefore the sad reverence with which I answer to the so cordial and so flattering reception that you have been kind enough to make to my ignored head "... A photograph (Bayard & Bertall), business card size, is attached.