Charles BAUDELAIRE Signed Autograph Letter. The Seizure of His Drawings. 1861

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing for many years in the sale of autographed letters and manuscripts. Autographed letter signed to Léon Gélis.

Two pages in-8° on vergé paper with the letterhead Gélis-Didot & Cie, Bankers. On the sheet, a site plan is drawn in pencil. Paris - May 2, 1861.

Baudelaire, broke, has his drawings seized. Regarding the seizure carried out at my place on my collection of drawings. "Here are the thirty francs that complete the payment of the first bill, which I had the misfortune to forget. There is a citation tomorrow for the last two bills; I will not go, being supported by your gracious promise.

You asked me what I wanted to do definitively: I want to come see you at the end of each month and deposit any amount with you, 50, 100, 200, etc. The extreme latitude I request from you is due to the absolute irregularity of my income. But never will a new month begin without me having paid you a visit and having deposited money with you. Please be kind enough to forward this letter to your usher with a note from you.

Regarding the seizure carried out at my place on my collection of drawings, I will tell you that there are a large number that did not belong to me and that were simply entrusted to me for a literary work. Finally, I will leave all the bills here until the last moment and ask you to make an effort to obtain from Mr. De Calonne the reimbursement of costs and interest.

Baudelaire 22, rue d'Amsterdam. Alphonse de Calonne was the director of La Revue contemporaine, in which Baudelaire published several critical articles.

Relatively accommodating towards the poet, he sometimes participated in the "navettes", these small fraudulent operations set up by Baudelaire and Malassis. The publisher provided the writer with letters of accommodation, which passed through the hands of his friends Asselineau, Monselet, or even Hetzel, before ending up discounted with various bankers in the capital. Gélis was one of them. Consult our manuscripts The Autographes des Siècles Gallery specializes in the sale and expertise of autographed letters and manuscripts from great personalities of past centuries. Purchase / Payment Methods We accept the following payment methods: Wire transfers and bank checks.

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