[NAPOLÉON]. Jean-Charles-Joseph comte LAUMOND (1753-1825) director general of Mines. L.A.S., Paris July 6 [1814], to his friend Denis Larabit, engineering officer at Porto Ferrajo, Elba Island; 3pages in-4, addressed. On Elba. "At last! at last! you have written to me, and from where? from the island of Elba, from Porto Ferrajo. [...] Your conduct is very noble. [...] since you took the decision to attach yourself to the Emperor's fortune, it was a fine thing to follow him in his misfortunes"... He asks for news, recommending caution in view of the surveillance of correspondence...