Guy de MAUPASSANT (1850-1893). L.A.S., [1884?], to Mme Paule Parent-Desbarres [Gisèle d'Estoc]; 1page in-12, address (telegram). One of Maupassant's earliest letters to his long-mysterious mistress, known as Gisèle d'Estoc. [Paule Courbe (1845-1894), married in 1875 to Paul-Joseph Parent-Desbarres, wrote under the pseudonyms Gysèle or her married name P. Desbarres or G. d'Estoc]. "Dear Madame, I regret your decision, but I can only submit to it". He doesn't know what time his friends will leave the next day. "If you are free this evening, for example, I can wait for you and not go out. [...] My (street) door has two stamps. You have to press the one underneath. The other would wake my cousin [Louis Le Poittevin] who lives upstairs. I didn't misspell your name, I read Destures, and I thought that, for some reason, you hadn't given your real name at the address where you told me to write. I kiss your hands and place myself at your disposal for any steps you may wish to take with a newspaper." Enclosed: - an unsigned letter to Marie on paper with the numeral MC; - a L.A.S. (initialled) to Rachilde, [March 31], about Laurent Tailhade: "I'm tracking T... in every corner to administer a correction and throw my glove in his face. [...] Your friends are beginning to make me nervous [...] It's your fault, you've got these men in a tizzy with your coquetries, and all they can think about is throwing mud at anything that offends them. Naughty people! How these things make me esteem men like Maupassant"... (1p. in-12, adr.; with note and commentary attached [by Pierre Borel?]).