"assez bon vous deux Dumas [...] relever dans les lettres de Mlle Mars ce qui sera utile"

Autograph letter signed by Roger de Beauvoir. One page in black ink on a bifolium of blue paper.
Discrete folds inherent to the mailing.
The writer and chronicler is preparing his Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars, the immense actress who counted among his intimates. In this letter he invites his correspondent to go to the actress's residence with Alexandre Dumas to study her correspondence.

"Mon cher ami,
Hier soir à cinq heures j'ai appris une nouvelle si triste qu'elle a influé subitement sur ma santé ; j'ai combattu vainement cette impression, on m'a tant tourné le sang que je viens d'appeler un médecin. Il m'a fait une ordonnant indiquant 3 mois de régime, excusez du peu ! [...] Soyez donc allez bon vous deux Dumas pour venir demain relever dans les lettres de Melle Mars ce qui sera utile [...] " (My dear friend,
Yesterday evening at five o'clock I learned such sad news that it suddenly affected my health; I fought this impression in vain, my blood has been so disturbed that I have just called a doctor. He has given me a prescription indicating 3 months of regimen, excuse me for so little! [...] So please be so good you two Dumas to come tomorrow to extract from Mademoiselle Mars's letters what will be useful [...])