TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE. Autograph Letter Signed, "AdeTocqueville," to "Sir," in French, reporting having received a letter from Billiard in Dresden concerning his poor health, requesting that he lobby the Foreign Minister for the transfer of Billiard to the beneficial climate of Switzerland, requesting his advice about whether it would be useful for Tocqueville to write the Minister himself, and, in a postscript: "My salute to your continued recovery." 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; faint soiling along folds. Tocqueville [Manche], 16 July 1850
