Fouqué, Friedrich Baron de la Motte, a fairytale poet of Romanticism (1777-1843). Eigh. Letter m. U. "LM Fouqué" and address as well as small paper seal with monogram "F". 1 S. Gr. 4to. (Halle a. d. Saale) 13.V.1838. To the legal historian Ludwig Pernice (1799-1861), professor of law and Censor in Halle, who probably mediated publisher for Fouqué. "... Wesre Leipziger Lerchen - I mean this time not the singing, also not the to be eaten, but the laying (perhaps also present case a little laying, because otherwise they could bring out after all: 'Yes' or 'No' - let in the fact somewhat hyper-indiscrete wait for itself. And on the 3rd... Junius I think to go to Berlin for 14 days; yes, I have to, since the Empress Alexandra has written to another high lady, she expects to see me there, and look forward to it. So make me a decision until then, and in the Verne case, the Mspt, which might be of many use to me there. - And then: what about my Natzmer review? I finally caught our venerable Voigtel on offner Straasse forcibly, at the same time reminding of a print of it, and he promised the best. But: 'out of sight, out of mind!' seems just as much to the dear old man - the man is even older, because I - to be regarded as the most youthful butterfly sylph. 'Sylphe' I say. Because the realistic butterfly, I think, has no eyes at all. Or do I shoot with it an even worse natural-historical bock, by trying to avoid such a one? - Worst case it does not come before friend Schweigger's tribunal, but before Your juridical, where not only Ignorantia juris must apply, but also andres, hope I ...". - Fouqué lived from 1833 to 1841 in Halle an der Saale.