Pierre LAFON (1773-1846). L.A.S., [1839], to a friend; 1page in-4. About the future Pauline Viardot. "I forgot to tell you about Mlle Garcia, with whom, it is said, or at least with Mde her mother, you have a great influence. If mercy were lost on the people you are so kind as to interest in my favor, I thought perhaps I might find an equivalent in the talent of this admirable singer. I was a friend of her father's, and the Comédie Française was fortunate enough at the time to do him the service I am claiming today for a benefit given to him at Louvois. Believe, my dear good friend, what your heart and your inventive mind could imagine of benevolent and fruitful to make my representation pleasant to the public"... Attached is a L.A.S. from Pierre-François Beauvallet, February 7, 1836, to M. Saint-Paul, unable to play Marino Falieri (1p. in-8, adr.).