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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 6 signed autograph letters to H…
See original version (French)
144
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 6 signed autograph letters to H…
See original version (French)
Estimate €180 - €220
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 6 signed autograph letters to Halpérine Kaminski [translator of the great Russian writers, including Tolstoy and Gogol]. 1888–1896. 4 pp. in-8 and 5 in-12, 5 envelopes.
– undated: ‘Alas, dear sir, I have more than twenty manuscripts at home that I was imprudent enough to promise to read… I have a work of my own to finish… Thank you for the book. It is… in a philosophical vein with which I believe I am also in agreement. ’ – June 1893: ‘I was deeply moved by that fine article; I would say it was very well written were it not entirely in my praise… I have just sent you a telegram asking you to correct an error. My mother was not Slavic, but Celtic…’ – 28 June 1895 [after Dumas Fils’s remarriage]: ‘Nothing has changed, my dear friend. There is simply one more charming lady in this house, where there will now be two of us to welcome you.”
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