Prosper MÉRIMÉE (1803-1870). L.A.S., Friday evening [23 September 1859]; 1 page in-8. He leaves on Monday for Madrid and invites his friend to come and have "a bad lunch on Sunday at my place". He will have to pass through Alicante and Marseille, "because he cannot find a place in the trunk and in the two stagecoaches from Bayonne," which are held up until the end of October. He thanks his friend for sending him his brochure and Bourquelot's book, "which does not seem to me to be very useful". He gives his address in Madrid at the Countess of Montijo...