Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to "Cher et illustre poète" [i.e. Alphonse Lamartine], [1840] March 14.

Declining an invitation; regretting specifically that he will not be able to see Madame [Delphine] de Girardin (a novelist who used the pen name Vicomte Delaunay), who has promised to take Lamartine to see Balzac's play Vautrin; notes that if the play is a flop early on, he will go to Lamartine's to console himself.