Charles LECONTE DE LISLE (1816-1894). L.A.S., Paris March 11, 1858, to Alphonse de Calonne; 1page in-8. To the editor of the Revue contemporaine: "I am all the more charmed that you liked my stanzas [Nurmahal], that I hope to offer you something better soon, assuming that I am not deluding myself. However, the kindness you have shown me emboldens me to make a perhaps indiscreet request. I'm suffering from a thousand embarrassments that rob me of all freedom of mind, and nothing would enable me to respond better to your kind offer than to be freed for a while from the preoccupations that obsess me. I have therefore come to ask you to advance me five hundred francs on the Poems or poems that I undertake to give only to the Revue contemporaine"...