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Important letter concerning Maupassant
See original version (French)
148
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Important letter concerning Maupassant
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
Important letter concerning Maupassant
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. Autograph signed letter to Albert Delpit. Undated [January 1893]. 6 pp. in-8.
‘What you have told me about Maupassant will remain between us. I sensed a tragedy in the private life of this young man whom I loved as I would have loved a son. I had always expected him to die young. It seemed to me that I might have been of some help to him… I would have been happy to counteract, as far as possible, the harmful physical and moral influence that Flaubert had exerted over him… I do not believe he will recover… He may live, but how…’
See original version (French)
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