Charles Baudelaire Signed Autograph Letter To Gélis. Seizure Of His Drawings

  

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Two pages in-8° on green paper head gelis-didot & cie, bankers. Sheet, a plan of mass is drawn at the lead mine. Paris - 2 May 1861. Baudelaire, without a penny, gets his drawings taken. About the seizure at my house on my collection of drawings.

" Here are the thirty francs that complete the payment of the first calonne note, which I had been wrong to forget. There is tomorrow a quote for the last two tickets; I will not go, being supported by your gracious promise.

You asked me what I definitely wanted to do: I want to come to you at the end of each month and deposit with you any amount, 50, 100, 200, etc. The extreme latitude I ask of you is due to the absolute irregularity of my income. But never a new month will begin without a visit from me, and without depositing money at your house.

Have the kindness to convey this letter to your bailiff with a word from you. With regard to the seizure of my collection of drawings at home, I will tell you that there are a very large number of them which were not my own and which were simply entrusted to me for literary work. Finally, lastly, I will leave here, until the last moment, all the tickets, and ask you to make an effort to get m. De calonne the reimbursement of the costs and interest. Baudelaire 22, rue d'amsterdam.

Alphonse de calonne was the director of the contemporary magazine, in which Baudelaire published several articles of criticism. Relatively complacent to the poet, he sometimes participated in the "shuttles", these small fraudulent operations mounted by baudelaire and malassis. The publisher provided the writer with tickets of convenience, which passed through the hands of his friends asselineau, monselet or even hetzel, before ending up expected at various bankers in the capital.

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