Comte de LACÉPÈDE (Bernard Germain Étienne de LAVILLE-SUR-IL - Lot 533

Comte de LACÉPÈDE (Bernard Germain Étienne de LAVILLE-SUR-ILLON), Musician, Naturalist, Deputy, Senator, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, Peer of France (AGEN/ Lot-et-Garonne 1756 - 1825) - Autograph letter signed May 23, 1824, to M. Annibal De MARROT aux Guilliberts (Charente). 1p in-4°. "Monsieur. Your old friendship for me has always made me count on your indulgence. I easily persuaded myself that you would have the goodness to think of the state of my health, so disturbed since the death of my beautiful beloved daughter, of my duties, of my work, and of the great number of replies I have to make to people, on whose complaisance I do not count as much as on that of the friend of my childhood..."