3 autograph letters signed. With a signed note by Alfred Nettement.

8vo. Together 3 pp. on bifolia. The note by Alfred Nettement: 1 p. The most curious item in the collection is a letter from 12 July 1851 to the author and journalist Alfred Nettement, who forwarded it to a friend with a signed note of his own. Lemoine politely criticizes a dramatic proverb that Nettement had sent him on behalf of a friend, arguing that it was well written but "would lack effect" on stage. He encourages the author to pusue different subjects for plays and to seek success in the theatre, as he possesses rare qualities: "Je crois cependant qu l'auteur de ce petit ouvrage doit chercher le succ s de th tre. Il a plusieurs qualit s qu'on ne rencontre pas toujours, m me chez ceux qui r ussissent. Il devra r ussir, le jour o il sera plus heureux dans le choix du sujet, ainsi que plus s v re et plus complex dans l' tude et la disposition de son plan [.]". Nettement sent the letter to the unidentified author with a similarly encouraging note: "Voici la lettre que je re ois de Lemoine et je la trouve fond e. Je sais que vous deviez travailler pour le th tre. S'il le dit, c'est qu'il le pense, vous deviez faire tr s s rieusement une pi ce [.]". - On 24 July, Lemoine wrote to a fellow playwright, addressed as "Mon Cher Chef", asking him whether they could change the title of a comedy that was to be performed at the Gymnase two days later from "Chiffons de Madame" to "Toilette de chat". - In a letter dated "Samedi 22" (no year), Lemoine seeks to change tickets for a new play by mile Augier that had been promised to him by the playwright from one day to another: "Augier me fait dire, en son nom et au votre, que deux fauteuils de Galerie sont ma disposition pour ce soir, outre son place d'orchestre. Si vous pouvez sans vous g ner, en garderant les deux Galerie pour votre service d'aujourdhui, me donner pour lundi une petite loge, Mme Montigny remettra la seconde repr sentation le plaisir d'applaudir le nouvel ouvrage de notre ami Augier [.]". The recipient who is addressed as "mon confr re" was probably the director of the theatre. - Lemoine-Montigny is best known today as a theatre director, having directed the Th tre de la Ga t from 1838 to 1844 and the Gymnase from 1844 to his death. - All letters on stationery with embossed or lithographed letterhead of the Th tre du Gymnase. Traces of folds. Some foxing and browning overall. Occasional minor tears.