[DREYFUS AFFAIR]: ESTERHAZY FERDINAND WALSIN (1847-1923) French Army officer who gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly accused and convicted in 1894. A.L.S., Esterhazy, one page, 8vo, n.p. (Harpenden, Hertfordsire?), 28^th February 1909, to a gentleman, in French. Esterhazy states that last night he received the two books which his correspondent had sent him, adding that he can only repeat what he told him the other day, and that he is very grateful for all the trouble that he is going to, further writing 'Je vous prierai aussi.....de me dire le prix de ces ouvrages qui me seront fort utiles pour ce que j'ai a faire. Je n'ai pas encore pu penser a risquer le voyage de Bournemouth, il fait le temps le plus affreux, neige, brouillard etc., c'est le plus affreux hiver que j'ai vu depuis 11 ans que je suis ici' (Translation: 'I would also ask you……to tell me the price of these works, which will be very useful to me for what I have to do. I haven't been able to think of risking the trip to Bournemouth yet, it's the most awful weather, snow, fog etc., it's the most awful winter I've seen in the 11 years I've been here'). With blank integral leaf. Together with an A.L.S. by Paul Desachy, editor of Bibliographie de l'Affaire Dreyfus, two pages, 4to, Rue Emile Augier, Paris, 26^th April 1935, to Monsieur E. Barbier, in French, discussing the autographs of Esterhazy and other individuals and explaining that those he has of Esterhazy relating to the Dreyfus Affair are typed and with only a very few annotations and therefore not suitable for his correspondent's collection. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Desachy. VG, 2