Xavier de MAISTRE (1763–1852). Autograph letter, Naples, June 10, 1832, to the Countess of Seyssel, née de la Marmora, in Turin; 3 pages in-4, envelope bearing a black wax seal (broken) and postmarks (small tear caused by the broken seal). Disappointed by the house he had rented in Castellamare, he ultimately took up residence with the Marcellus family at the Esterazy house on the Chiaia. The countess’s letter reminds him of the good times spent in Rome and pulls him out of “the apathy in which I have been living for a long time […] time has laid its cold hand on my imagination; most of my correspondence has gradually come to an end, the rest are languishing; it seems to me that everything is fading away around me”… He asks the countess to thank Mr. d’Azeglio “for everything his good friend, the Maestro di scuola [Cesar Balbo], says in favor of *The Leper* [*The Leper of Aosta*], which makes me praise his translation; I read the entire book believing I was reading it in French”—and thus rediscovered his book, “something that hadn’t happened to me in over 20 years.” He takes issue with only two words “that do not accurately convey the original.” He regrets not being able to spend the summer in a delightful countryside as he had hoped and laments not being able to send an autograph letter from his brother [Joseph, who died in 1821], since he burned family letters “in bulk,” a decision he now regrets… Enclosed is a letter in the sender’s own hand (L.A.S.) from his wife, Sophie de Maistre, to the countess, describing Naples and its surroundings (4 pp., small quarto). Former collection of Maurizio Seyssel of Aix.