He wrote vaudevilles for the Alexander theatre under an assumed name, and not until 1840 published his first volume of verse.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
The plays and vaudevilles he knows far more of than I do, and always maintains they are the happiest growth of the French school-setting aside the masters, observe-for Balzac and George Sand hold all their honours; and, before your letter came, he had told me about the 'Kean' and the other dramas.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
"A great time calls for great hearts," he wrote to his father: "am I to write vaudevilles when I feel within me the courage and strength for joining the actors on the stage of real life?"
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose