Théophile gautier (1811-1872) Lot n° 327

L.A.S.,[London July 1846], to Mademoiselle[Rachel]; 2 pages in-8. Nice letter to the actress. "I stayed in London for several days on the basis of the colossal posters wandering the streets and bearing the sacramental words "Miss Rachel for six nights" but the news of your indisposition in Lille did not allow me to hope for the pleasure of witnessing your effect on the English before a few days, I am leaving for Paris with a soap opera about your triumphs in Belgium and cannot recommend to you orally as I would have liked, a person who is very dear to me, Miss Ernesta Grisi - she must give a performance in St James where Carlotta Grisi will dance and where other celebrities of the Italian Theatre will appear. If you were still in London at that time on your way back from tour on August 4 or 5, you would be very charming to make the attraction of this evening irresistible with some fragment of tragedy - or even of comedy Marinette[in Le Dépit amoureux] for example that you played so well"...