Guy de MAUPASSANT (1850-1893). L.A.S., [1886?], to a lady; 2 1/2 pages in-8. Interesting letter about his nervous illness. ... "I see that Gervex has told you of my remorse. [...] It will be a great pleasure for me to dine with you on Tuesday - if I am not obliged to stay in bed, as happens to me once or twice a week at the moment. [...] I have hurried back to Paris to consult the doctors about a very strange and torturous nervous disease which takes incomprehensible forms and is at the moment in an odious crisis. For the last six months, I have been suffering an intolerable torment, after having gone through the most unexpected accidents for ten years. At the moment, I can't say in the morning, when I feel almost well, that I don't go to bed an hour later"...