*Couthon (Georges Auguste, 1755-94). Autograph letter signed, Clermont-Ferrand, 9th May, 1789, le

*Couthon (Georges Auguste, 1755-94). Autograph letter signed, Clermont-Ferrand, 9th May, 1789, lengthy letter to a friend and colleague in a very neat hand, ‘... Si je pouvais douter que la chose publique vous laisse quelques instants de libres, je ferais des reproches ˆ votre amitiŽ, de ne m'en avoir pas accorder un seul depuis que vous etes parti, mais je respecte trop le motif de votre silence pour m'en plaindre', two pages, folio, together with two other French manuscript documents including one leaf of verses (numbered three and four and lacking first part) believed to be in the hand of Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767-94, noted Girondist), and an autograph letter signed from the Duc D'Istrie to Monsieur Tardis, dated 20th January 1814, 2 pp., folio (3)