DUREAU DE LA MALLE Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-René (1742-1807), littérateur et traducteur, député au Corps législatif [AF 1804, 13e f] MANUSCRIT autograph, and L.A., 1800, to his wife; sewn notebook of 23 ff. in-4, and 3 pages in-8 with address. 300 / 400 € Notebook used for the printing of his new translation of SALLUSTE's Works (Giguet et Michaud, 1808): it includes a harangue of Salluste, Letter of Mithridate, king of Pontus, to Arsace, king of the Parthians, followed by Political Letters of Salluste to Caesar. First letter, and Second letter, with textual and historical notes, and erasures and corrections. Crillon 22 October IX (1800). He speaks to his wife with gratitude about the marquis of CRILLON, who gave him the means to have his niece treated. He himself suffers from a lack of sleep "to repair the great dissipations" caused by "the effervescence of an imagination that in my old age I should learn to moderate at last" He has read two volumes of OSSIAN "with transport". A L.A.S. "Dureau" to Mrs. Suard is attached (torn address sheet).