BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)

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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)
Suite of 4 autograph letters signed to POULET-MALASSIS. Autograph letter signed to Auguste POULET-MALASSIS, [Paris], December 7, 1858, 9 o'clock in the evening. 2 pages in-4 in ink with stamped address sheet. "A few more words: nothing I have said to you is absurd; you do not doubt anything I have told you. Try, then, to find in your heart a new means of giving me the rest I so earnestly seek." "Need I tell you that you may shoot at me, as you intended ( I have just thought of this silliness), and that I simply beg you to be exact?" As you have a strange mind, I must beg you to see here neither epigram nor a cudgel. You were wrong to crown the explanation of your fears with recriminations against indiscreet people. Why do you want me to pore over faults that are not mine? All yours. Answer me at 22, rue Beautrellis, and right away. You can probably guess what state I am in." Autograph letter monogrammed to Auguste POULET-MALASSIS, [Honfleur], 13 June 1859. 4 pages in-16. "You are quite wrong never to write to me; for, here, I do not hear a human word, - And the Austrian book? You will tell me what you think of my Salon. And my Gautier? - In a short time I shall be able to deliver your Opium and Hashish, and shortly afterwards the Complete Curiosities, which will be followed by New Flowers. At last I have made a short story based on the hypothesis; discovery of a conspiracy by an idler, who follows it up to the day before it explodes, and then flips a coin to see whether he will report it to the police." Autograph letter signed to Auguste POULET-MALASSIS, [Paris], 29 Feb[rier] 1860. 2 pages in-8 in ink + address sheet (tear) "My dear, your letter of this morning has caused me great irritation. Some leaves are lost; I beg to have them looked for. No answer. I am starting them again. I beg to know if the connection is right: no answer. And always (formerly) prints before the proofs (sent back the same day) have arrived at the printing office! It makes one want to be a snitch and beg the government our father to suppress these people!" "Thus we begin Les Paradis with the beginning of March. Seriously and in good faith, can we compose this in a month? And Les Fleurs, in a month? If at the end of March I have not done the last three pieces left in Honfleur and the preface, I sacrifice them. I now have twenty-six unpublished pieces, including the last five sonnets I sent you. You call me Philis, to make me understand that you despair from hoping. I will stroll to the monster's house and make my complaints". Autograph letter signed to Auguste POULET-MALASSIS, [Paris, May 3, 1860]. 1 page in-8 in ink, address on verso. (Tear) "I felt like rereading again, and well, I removed a misunderstanding. Did you wait for me? Now I'm not kidding. A terror grips me regarding the pharmaceutical note at the end. Think it over. It only takes the malice of a bad man, in some dirty newspaper, to create an embarrassment for us. I think of the fortune-teller who predicted that I should meet a very tall, very thin, very dark-haired girl, of the age of... Now I have met her." Letters published in the Pléiade.
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