Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
THREATENING TO MOVE IN WITH HIS SON IF HE DOES NOT BEHAVE SADE, DONATIEN ALPHONSE FRANÇOIS; MARQUIS DE. Autograph Letter Signed, "Sade," to his son Donatien-Claude-Armand, in French, expressing surprise and exasperation at his not having put things in order with respect to Mr. Le Normand. 1 page, 8vo; few small worming holes at right edge expertly repaired with paper verso (affecting one word of text), folds. [Saint-Maurice], "the 29th" [1803-14]

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"You will admit to me, my dear Armand, that your conduct toward me continues to be always more and more peculiar. You know my situation, you know that I lack even the most necessary things of life and you finish nothing with Le Normand. It has been three weeks since (according to you) he should have been put in order and the 28th of this month he writes me that you have not even written him. Finish it, therefore, I implore you, for--on my honor--without that I will leave one of these mornings and go live with you.
"M. de Coulmier is also getting impatient and there's my letter from Arles, which does not resolve anything either . . . . Your negligence is--on my honor--incomprehensible . . . ."