Alexandre DUMAS père (1802-1870). L.A., [1844?], to his "dear love"; 2 1/2 pages in-8 in his cipher. Loving letter to a mistress. "My dear love - If you are in a bath of fire I am in a bath of boredom. I've had a hard time of it since morning - fifty people came, including only Madame Durand, with whom I was able to talk about you for a moment. It's now three o'clock. I've written twelve lines of tonight's serial, it's driving me crazy. Mon amour cheri I'm really as worried as you are, but you have to be here. How can I say such things to a doctor without proof? He won't believe it. So we'll tell Desmarquais or Ricord everything [...]. Perhaps there is also an excitement in sea bathing that increases the accidents in question. [...] Tomorrow, Montecristo and I will send you a bottle of magnetized water. As everything is in the imagination [...] you will soak a small sponge in it and fall asleep with this sponge where you know. Then when you go to bed, you'll drink a spoonful of this water - saying to yourself - He wants me to sleep. [...] I love you, my love. Love me. [...] millions of kisses".