Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Trébutien, 1844 February 29.

Informing him that he has just finished his manuscript of Brummel[l] and requesting that he contact Captain Jesse to determine at what stage of publication his own book on Brummell is in; stating that If it is completed, he will make his Brummel an introduction to a review of Jesse's; expressing his intention to think about Brummell rather than depend on information from doubtful sources; wonders what Montesquieu would think of Dandyism and what Stendhal might have written about it; sending him three pieces he has written, hoping that one day, when he becomes a political historian or a charge d'affaires, others will find them interesting; notes that his sonnets are addressed to women, and that one is called “The Cupbearer” and the other, ”Beauty”, along with a prose poem called “Niobe”; mentions his book La Bague [d'Annibal, 1842] and requests that he send the poems to [Joseph Alphonse] Le Flaguais; states that he does not yet have a contract for his novel Germaine and is waiting impatiently for his two articles to appear in Les Debats; adds that Du Meril has contacted him to inform him that M. Charma would like an article from him from time to time for his newspaper and states that he admires Charma but can't write for a paper he doesn't read and therefore asks Trebutien to send him several copies; says he has sent a few articles on La Bague to newspapers, but they haven't been printed, although one is scheduled to appear in Le Grand Moniteur, whose editor is always polite to Barbey since he wrote is article on the poetry of Renee; complains that his life is one of work and isolation and mentions the Baron de Tribioutine.