8vo. 2 pages on bifolium. With autograph address verso.

Literature: Lettres intimes XXXVIII, 166.

To the painter Charles Soulier at the Duke of Noaille's home in Maintenon, glad that he found the metope he was looking for and that he is working hard. He mentions a letter by the painter Thales Fielding, which he did not take the time fully to understand and which his friend Jean-Baptiste Pierret mailed to Soulier, asking him to write to Fielding at once to inquire about his wishes, supposing he would like to return a watercolour via the publisher Ostervald. He concludes with asking him to return soon, as he is bored on his own: "Je suis bien content que tu aies retrouvé la métope, mon cher et bon, et aussi que tu travailles beaucoup. Pierret a pris soin de te renvoyer ce que tu lui demandais et en même temps un morceau de lettre de Fielding pour toi, que je n'ai pas pris le temps de comprendre. Je voudrais que tu lui écrivisses de suite ce qu'il désire au sujet de son aquarelle etc. Il m'a semblé qu'il voulait la renvoyer par Mr Ostervald [...] Reviens vite. Je m'ennuie seul [...]".

A few small traces of worming.