CARPEAUX JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1827-1875) French Sculptor and Painter. A fine and interesting content A.L.S., `J.Bte Carpeaux´, three pages, 8vo, n.p., 9th July 1873, to a friend, in French. Carpeaux starts referring to French author Alexandre Dumas, and tries to help his correspondent´s cousin stating in part `Mr. Dumas m´a répondu qu´il veut bien lire la piece de ton cousin et qu´il attend de la recevoir. Elle a donc été égarée par la personne chargée de la mettre a la Poste..´ (''Mr. Dumas replied to me that he would be happy to read your cousin's play and that he is waiting to receive it. It was therefore misplaced by the person in charge of sending it through the post office...''), further explaining that it is not worth to spend time checking at the post office where the parcel is, and it is worth sending a new copy to Dumas´ address at Dieppe. Carpeaux further again wishes good luck to his correspondent and says `J´espere que tout ira pour le mieux. Car Dumas m´a dit qu´il lira la piece sachant que cela me fera Plaisir, et qu´il m´en dira son sentiment. Il est donc bon quelques fois d´etre malade, cela peut servir aux amis´ (''I hope that everything will work well. Because Dumas told me that he will read the play knowing that it will please me, and that he will tell me his feelings about it. It is therefore good sometimes to be sick, it can be useful to friends'') At the conclusion Carpeaux says goodbye as `De tout coeur, ton vieil ami´ (''With all my heart, your old friend'') A letter of good association, reporting on Carpeaux and Dumas fils friendship, and mentioning Carpeaux´s illness in the last years of his life. Very small repair to the fold and extremely small tear to the right edge, otherwise G Alexandre Dumas, Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. Author of the romantic novel La Dame aux Camelias (''The Lady of the Camellias''), published in 1848, which was adapted into Verdi´s 1853 opera La Traviata.