Judith GAUTIER (1850-1917). 2 L. A. S. (the 1st "Judith"); 4 pages in-8 each (a corner cut at the 1st). [ca. 1866-1867], to his friend the architect Charles Robelin, whom Judith (young wife of Catulle Mendès) invites to join them in Barbizon: "If you don't come, you'll die; this forest has prevented me from writing to you for eight days. I had a donkey at first who kept me very busy, he came to get me every morning, took me into the woods and threw me into all the ditches he encountered, I fell with perfect grace to get back up quickly but the donkey pretended to be sick to soften us up"... She wanted to try riding horses but the meeting of a mare, "oh women!", caused "gambols and jiggles", and some terrors for Judith: "I was first afraid of painters, but painters are very gentle animals. Then the vipers! Then the wolves! Then the boars! But in fact of ferocious beasts I saw now only deer, rabbits, and squirrels "... [1890], thanking for a beautiful article on his book La Conquête du Paradis... "The small quarrels, of which you threaten me, worry me a little, because they give me to think that you believe, perhaps, that I wrote lightly, when on the contrary, I studied, during nearly seven years, this so complicated history, before unravelling it. I could have supported every historical detail with supporting documents"... She does not believe that La Bourdonnais received the million: "But the English have proof that he received the promise in writing. [I see that you are very much aware of this great French adventure which has interested me so passionately, and I am a little saddened to think that perhaps you do not know Dupleix"...