LAYA Jean-Louis (1761-1833) auteur dramatique et poète [1817, 25e f]. 17 L.A.S., 2 P.A.S. and 2 L.S. or P.S. "Laya" or "le cher Laya", Paris and Clamart 1803-1832; 34 pages various sizes, some headings and addresses. Receipt for his stipend at the Moniteur (1803) Act of candidacy for the vacant place in the 2nd class of the Institute, with statement of his titles (December 9, 1814) Sending of a new edition of the Letter of Eusebius to Jean-Baptiste SUARD, with some of his literary ideas: "the profession of versifier has become quite futile and quite miserable; [] the poetic process is only a means to arrive more surely, or more pleasantly at the end one proposes, at persuasion" (January 3, 1815) To Baron MOUNIER, upon learning of the new adjournment imposed on his comedy, L'Ami des lois: "I see myself as punished, because I have made a work that attacks the most dangerous enemies of the social system" (July 9, 1820) His gratitude, after the King named him Knight of the Legion of Honor (September 7, 1820) Petition in favor of Dumaniant, " doyen of the comic authors ", indigent (signed also by Droz, Picard, Duval, Brifaut, Parseval-Grandmaison, Brifaut, Auger, [March 1828]) Favourable answer to SALVANDY, who wishes to see him write about his Don Alonso : he can count "on the old professor who has paternal entrails for some of his former students" (June 12 [1829]) Censorship report on Les Rouliers [by Dumersan and Gabriel], a one-act vaudeville presented by the Théâtre du Vaudeville (May 15, 1829) He points out to his colleague Fabien PILLET points of resemblance between Une fête de Néron, which will be premiered at the Odéon, and his own play Le Jeune Néron, which is still waiting to be performed (December 16 [1829]) State emargé des indemnités des membres de la Commission du Dictionnaire de l'Académie (co-signed by Campenon, Villemain, Parseval Grandmaison, Arnault et Andrieux, September 1832) Other letters to Louis-Simon Auger, Barbié du Bocage, Jacques-Philippe Ledru, le comte de Montbel, François Raynouard, Salvandy, etc. A l.a.s. from his son Léon Laya, July 14, 1840, is enclosed.