Robert, baron TASCHER DE LA PAGERIE. L.S. partly autograph, at Vauclin (Martinique) March 28, 1804, to Empress Josephine "my very dear niece"; 2 pages in-4. Beautiful family letter to his niece Josephine, calling Napoleon's attention to Martinique. "I have never been so sensitive to the evils and privations to which the war exposes us, as since it puts us in the impossibility of receiving news of you and of all that interests you; what increases my regrets, it is not to be able to say to me the time when we will be free to join you and to embrace you; peace having to operate this happy reunion, to which we all aspire; I fear well that in the state in which the things are, that we do not have this happiness of soon: but I beg you in grace, my dear friend, console your old uncle by taking advantage of some opportunity for this country [...]. You must not doubt that a word from you will be received by us with great pleasure; it will put our minds at rest about you, about your illustrious husband whom we never cease to admire, and about your dear children whom I embrace with tenderness [...]. I would like you, my dear friend, to tell me something about my Stéphanie, about my good Yéyé. Have they confirmed to you the idea I gave you as a father, and that which all my friends have of him? [...] Keep me in the memory of the First Consul; embrace Eugène, Hortense, her husband, and give a thousand caresses to the dear little Napoleon for me as well as to my dear children"...