Charles Tristan, Count of MONTHOLON (1783-1853). L.A.S., Citadelle de Ham, February 4, 1844, [to Ludovic Vitet]; 2 pages in-4. Imprisoned, he complains of not being able "to receive visits in accordance with the rules established for the place of my detention. He has been written that the Countess of Lee "could come three times a week to the fort of Ham. [...] This visit is the only consolation I have asked for. He recalls his years of captivity on St. Helena, the last words of the Emperor "deigning to name the care of a son, those that I rendered him until his death"; he is "condemned to die in expiation of my religious worship of Napoleon. [...] I have served my country since my youth, I left the battlefield only to follow the Emperor in his exile"... He hopes in the benevolence of the Minister of the Interior...