Bernardin de SAINT-PIERRE (1737-1814). L.A.S., Paris 25 flor - Lot 137

Bernardin de SAINT-PIERRE (1737-1814). L.A.S., Paris 25 floréal III (May 14, 1795), to citoyen Croullebois, bookseller in Paris; ¾page in-4, addressed. He asks him "to deliver to Cit. Bailly a voucher for 50 copies of the studies [Études de la nature] at the rate of 42llfor 50ll and give him leaves and figures", and other formats if he needs them. "I also recommend that he remind Cit. Simon the care of my lawsuit, for his interest and mine are at stake. We would have finished all this business between us if he hadn't come to ring my doorbell when I was in my entresol, where it's impossible to hear the bell. I'm very sorry to have made him take this step in vain, I had been waiting for him with the greatest impatience. Finally, what is delayed is not missed"...