Frédérick LEMAÎTRE. 2 L.A.S. and 1 L.S. with autograph date, [ca. 1838-1849], to Anténor Joly; 4 pages in-8 or in-4, addresses. Wednesday 7 p.m. [1838-1839]. "I am in despair, my dear M. Joly, that my mother, told you that I was out, she thought she was pleasing me"; he is unwell and in bed: "Playing Ruy Blas tomorrow, I don't care to go out tonight, for fear of rewinding"... Monday June 24 [1839]: "I must be suffering well, my dear friend, to act in this way, but since you have the power to calm my despair, do it for the pity of a fool, a madman, to whom love makes him forget everything"... [Lyon] June 3 [1849]: he doesn't see how he can compromise himself by replying. "You want to make me a Taillerand, a Metternich? I'm just a bungler every morning and evening, obliged to frolic [...]. I left Paris in disgust at all the dirty maneuvers they were using to get the theater reopened [...] If I were in Paris, I'd get material proof of what I know verbally, I'd go and see Charles Blanc, and in 24 hours I'd have demolished everything"...