Gérard de NERVAL – Autograph letter signed “G. Labrunie”.

Gérard de NERVAL (1808.1855)

Autograph letter signed “G. Labrunie”

Two pages in-8°. Collector's stamp at the top.

[Paris]. February 5, 1830.

Very beautiful letter from young Nerval, aged 22, thanking his interlocutor, with great politeness, for his visit to his maternal grandfather.

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“Sir, I am very touched by the trouble you took to visit my grandfather to see me and I thank you for the kind letter you were kind enough to write me. As for another one that you spoke to me about, I did not receive it and I was very surprised when I was told by my grandfather that you had written one to me a few months ago based on what you told them. I went to the study where you had sent her, unaware that I was no longer fleeing there and I convinced myself there that these gentlemen, through a negligence which I know was very bad for them, had lost her, after me. having kept it for a long time because they expected me to come and see them and I stayed several months without going. I regret it all the more because she would probably have given me your address and thereby given me the pleasure of writing to you. I will now have the pleasure of seeing you, which is better and if I do not fear disturbing you too much I will go and visit you next Monday or Tuesday at half past eight; It's a bit early, but I think it's the time when we're most sure to find you. All yours. G. Labrunie. »

Just after obtaining his baccalaureate, on August 10, 1829, Gérard seemed to opt for vague law studies accompanied by an internship with a notary, mentioned in this letter: “I went to the office where you 'had addressed…'. The appeal of letters was stronger than this legal route, which was very quickly abandoned.