Rodolphe BRESDIN (1822-1885). L.A.S., [Hôpital] Necker salle St Luc [avril 1870?], to publisher Georges Charpentier; 1page in-8 (small split). "Please excuse me if I take the liberty of tormenting you so much. But I'm sending you my little one to see if you've been good enough to try to find me an amateur for a series, and if I should take what share. In the meantime, I beg you not to formalize yourself or find me intrusive, because of my illness my family is in a terrible crisis"... Attached is a l.a.s. from his daughter Rodolphine Bresdin, Paris February 28, 1912, to Cadet-Garguille (3p. in-8); she corrects the caption and clarifies that, while her mother is deceased, the engraver's six children (not four) are very much alive. As the eldest, she never stopped "fighting with all my strength to restore honor to my father's memory. Unfortunately, my resources being modest and the opportunities to sell the proofs I possess of some of his works having been too rare, the result of my efforts has been slow in coming. In recent years, however, the name of Rodolphe Bresdin seems to be emerging from the undeserved oblivion into which it has been plunged for too long"... Plus a reproduction of Baudelaire's signature.