STENDHAL: (1783-1842) Marie-Henri Beyle. French writer, considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism, whose works include Le Rouge et le Noir (1830). A.L.S., M. Beyle, one page, 4to, n.p., 15^th February n.y. (1827), to [Frederick Yates], in English. Stendahl writes, in full, 'I thank you very much for the tiket (sic) you send me. By some mistake of the devils, they refused admittance but to the upper galleries, so I have not seen the performance. But in Lancaster, in the last August, I have admired the efficiency and energy of your mimickal (sic) powers. I thank you anew Sir, and pray to believe me your most obliged servant'. With blank integral leaf (minor repair to a slight split at the edge of a fold). Some light foxing, otherwise VG

 

Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842) English actor and theatre manager whose first stage appearance was in France. Yates put on a three-act production of Yates Laughable Entertainments in 1827.