René-Théophile LAENNEC. L.A.S., Paris July 28, 1806, to his father; 4 pages small in-4 very full of a small handwriting. About his first medical writings, and his love of the Breton language. He is going to send his father the complete collection of the Journal de Médecine for which he worked for free and wrote articles under various signatures: "TL. - R.T.H. L. - R.T.L. - R. I sign sometimes one and sometimes the other, sometimes I sign my whole name". His finances are at their lowest, and he asks his father to send him what he can, so that he can spend a few days in the country, failing to go to Quimper. His memoir "on vesicular worms is almost entirely printed, but it will not appear for a few months. He has news of Michaud [his brother] who is in Beauvais, and who would gladly return to Quimper if he could find a place there: "His health needs care which he would find rather in his native country and in his father's house than in the hotel of the prefect of the Picards. [...] the successes with which God has blessed my work up to now indicate to me quite clearly that I must pursue the career of science and give up living in my country and among my relatives, at least for a while. He likes "to speak the language of these good Lower Breton people" that he begins to hear well (he writes a few words in Breton) and asks for "the catechism - dictionary - and grammar gathered of Father Maunoir printed in 1659" and other books in Breton...