Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Hippolyte Delaunay
Paris s. d. [avril 1841]|13.50 x 21 cm|une page sur un feuillet
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Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Hippolyte Delaunay written in black ink. Recipient's name in Nerval's hand on the verso of the leaf. A central fold inherent to the mailing. This letter has been transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. Gérard de Nerval is finally "free and released from the Maison Blanche" after staying there following his crisis of early spring 1841. This is not, however, a definitive release but probably permission granted by Doctor Blanche to his patient, the latter would not be definitively released until November 1841. The handwriting, difficult to read in places, shows Gérard de Nerval's feverishness, as he seeks to reconnect with the literary milieu: "I bring masses of copy, for you and three or four other journals." Hippolyte Delaunay was editor-in-chief of the review L'Artiste in which Nerval published on April 11th of the same year an article entitled "Mémoires d'un Parisien, Sainte-Pélagie 1832".