HONORÉ DE BALZAC

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HONORÉ DE BALZAC
L.A.,[aux Jardies, 25 ? November 1838]; 1 page and a half oblong in-12. Instructions to a commission agent for shopping at his publishers'. We must ask the Sovereign "if he has any trials", and take two volumes of Alphonse Karr: Genevieve and Friday evening; then go to Gervais Charpentier's house "to announce to him that tobaccoology will be handed over tomorrow" to the printer Éverat, who must be pressed for "the postponement of the new test requested"[it is the Treaty of Modern Excitants, following the Physiology of Taste of Brillat-Savarin]; and "to ask him for Barchou's 2 philosophical works[by Penhoën]". He adds on the back: "If there are tests from the Field Physician, they would be reported Monday by the man to Curmer". Correspondence (Pléiade), t. II, n° 38-103.
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