Lettre autographe signée adressée au citoyen Chely, pharmacien

Autograph letter signed by Antoine Augustin Parmentier addressed to citizen Chely, chief pharmacist of the military hospital of Calais.
Transverse folds inherent to the mailing and small paper loss due to the unsealing of the missive.
"Je suis fâché mon cher camarade, que le C^en [Citoyen] Lavoisier m'ait envoyé un pâté sans doute dans l'intention de m'intéresser en faveur de son fils ; mais je dois vous assurer que les présen[t]s me tiédissent plutôt encore sur le compte de ceux qui m'en font au reste j'enverrais au jeune homme des livres pour la valeur du pâté [...]" ["I am sorry my dear comrade, that Citizen Lavoisier sent me a pâté undoubtedly with the intention of interesting me in favor of his son; but I must assure you that gifts rather cool me towards those who give them to me, moreover I would send the young man books for the value of the pâté [...]"]
An amusing letter evoking a namesake of the great physicist executed the previous year without having left any descendants.