Lettre du Général Kleber au Général Menou

1 page 1/2, in-folio; handwritten; French; engraved vignette and headings: Liberté; égalité; République Française, Kleber Général en Chef. signed: Kleber, with post-scriptum. ; Autograph letter of Kleber, from Cairo, 12 Vendémiaire, an 8 [4.10.1799], to Menou in Alexandria, informing him personnally and asking to keep secret, of the dispositions to take following rumors concerning a great number of sailing-ships approaching Alexandria; ; Kleber continues: ".. Mon objet est de gagner du temps par tous les moyens imaginables et chaque jour que je gagnerai, doit-être considéré comme une victoire", stressing further on deficiency in number of french troupes and soldiers, weakened by illness and eye-disease: "Les ophtalmies font un ravage"; asks for confirmation concerning rumors of the death by the plague, of four officers in Alexandria,