Gérard de NERVAL (1808-1855). L.A.S. "Gérard," Vienna February 26 [1840], to Jules MICHEL; 2 pages in-12 filled with a small, tight handwriting. Nerval calls for help from the dramatic agent J. Michel. He has been in Vienna "for 4 months. My time is done I would still live very well here, but I have been sent no money to return. He sent "articles to Paris for about two hundred francs", asking Alphonse Karr and Théophile Gautier to have them published, notably in L'Artiste. He is going to leave "in four or five days with hardly enough money to go to Strasbourg", where he would like to find "for sure, fifty francs [...] I will need so much to find there the thing, to find myself in the same place as two years ago, that I do not hesitate to address to you". He asks him to give a new article to Karr, who will give him the money so that Michel sends it to him by money order to Strasbourg, poste restante. "Besides, don't complain too much, this is only an accident which always happens to me on my travels because of my improvidence. It must also be said that the stay in Vienna is much more expensive than I thought, especially because of the company I am obliged to keep. Once I got back to Paris I bloomed again. So I take the travel stick with confidence and go to make my three hundred and fifty leagues, experiencing that Paris is as far from Vienna as Vienna is from Paris. [...] I think that I will arrive in time to see your play and I would like that to put some inspiration back in my heart, I am afraid to take back my collar of feuilletonist, or to give myself up again "to the uncertain favor of the courts"... Œuvres complètes (Pléiade, éd. Guillaume-Pichois), t. I, p. 1343.