Jean-Baptiste GRESSET (1709–1777). Autograph manuscript, Stances…; 4 pages in-4. Drafts of poems. The two-leaf sheet is filled with verses jotted down on the paper, with numerous strikings-through, corrections, and marginal additions. In addition to the Stanzas: “Winter no longer covers our countryside with ice”… (8 quatrains), there is an early version with marginal additions of the “Unpublished Epistle” To M***, published in the Bulletin de l’Académie ébroïcienne (1834): “Since I must reply to you/ To remain your friend/ From the realms of the other world/ this note will be delivered to you”… (about a hundred lines)…