Virginie DÉJAZET (1798-1875). 5 L.A.S. (one incomplete at the beginning), 1846 and n.d., to Arthur Bertrand; 20 pages mostly in-8. Beautiful love letters to Count Arthur Bertrand (the general's son), with whom she had a long and passionate affair. From London, she assures her unfaithful lover of her love: "I have no other memory than yours! no other joy in my soul than that which can come to me from you! I feel this joy with every letter I read! [...] You make me much better than I am. [...] If I were what you make me, we would never have left each other, and other women would never have leaned on your heart! Alas! if I were an angel, I would long ago have taken you from this earth, where the devil has more power than I! [...] A poor woman has followed you more than once with eyes full of tears, and it was then that she wished for wings to surround you, protect you and steal you away from the seductive demons who have stolen so many riches from me! Love me, then, for what I am dear, Arthur, that is to say, because of all others, I have loved you best! [...] Your mother's friendship is a Baptism that has cleansed me of many faults and married our two souls! [...] Give me your heart, remain good all the same! The beats of mine will always respond!"... Etc. Nostalgic and sad, she regrets the end of this adventure: "Hebien my dear Arthur, the great straw fire is entirely extinguished. When I left London I found it already quite pale. But my visit to you didn't even leave a spark. [...] I was wrong. I should have followed my first idea, to leave without seeing you. [...] It was a dream! I don't blame you, my poor child, and I'd like to erase the memory of it from my mind, just as I erase every line of your too-burning letters. Because dreams are often regretted. I would like to keep only your affection, which I have missed for so long. I would like, every time that chance brings us face to face, to have only one hand between us, like a single thought! [...] In heaven there is only one love! The one that can, that must always exist between us!"... Etc. We enclose 4 L.A.S. to Francis Plunkett, director of the Palais-Royal theater, during his tours in Clermont, Lyon (in 1856), Tours (1868); and 2 photographs (by J. Tourtin, business-card size) dedicated on the back, 1873 and n.d.