Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Auguste Cavé

Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Auguste Cavé, written in careful handwriting in black ink on the first page of a double sheet. Minor traces of folds inherent to posting and some light foxing.
This letter was transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition.
After two violent nervous breakdowns, Gérard de Nerval was compelled to stay at Dr. Blanche's clinic between March and November 1841. Short of money, he addressed this letter to his friend Auguste Cavé, then director of the Fine Arts section at the Ministry of the Interior, to solicit his support with "M. le Ministre": "Quoi qu'entièrement rendu à la santé, je sens que je ne puis encore travailler qu'avec ménagement, et s'il était possible que l'on m'aidât d'une légère somme mensuelle [...] je serais plus sûr de pouvoir reprendre peu à peu ma position littéraire, sans risquer de nouveaux accidens" ["Though entirely restored to health, I feel that I can only work with care, and if it were possible to be helped with a small monthly sum [...] I would be more certain of being able to gradually resume my literary position, without risking new accidents"].