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155 - Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. Around 55 autograph, signed let…
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. Around 55 autograph, signed letters to writers, journalists, publishers… Congratulatory and thank-you notes. Advice to young authors. Regrets at being unable to write a foreword. Replies to questionnaires… Including: Émile Augier (3) – Alphonse Daudet (1, 19 December 1891 regarding a play he refused to proofread, seeing nothing to amend ‘save for a few insignificant details’) – A. Delpit (1) – E. Fournier (1) Jouaust (1) and regrets at being unable to attend the banquet Jouaust (1) – Henry Lapauze (2) – Ernest Lavisse (1, 1893 on *Le Grand Frédéric* before his accession) – Alphonse Lebègue (1) – Adrien Marx (1) – Émile Montagne (7) – Henri de Pène (1, undated. He sent her a short story for her magazine: ‘If you have any young female subscribers, you’ll produce a special edition for them, with an embroidery pattern instead of my prose.’). – Numerous correspondents (dear friend, my dear colleague…) who remained anonymous. – To a female novelist: ‘I haven’t forgotten you, my lovely colleague… I believe you’ve got the right touch by making the young girl succumb rather than the other one. That’s the crux of the play… ” – “You have a flair for the theatre, there’s no doubt about that… the two opening monologues are superfluous… The dénouement isn’t subtle enough… You’re of the Becque school…” – On women: “I have received confessions from women. Do women ever make confessions unless forced by the evidence?...’ – ‘I’ve been asked to write so many prefaces that I’ve ended up telling several young colleagues that I no longer write them…’ – On a manuscript by Béranger: ‘I spent hours comparing the handwriting in the notebook with that in my letters… There are contradictions that cannot be the result of chance… I cannot therefore propose this notebook as an autograph by Béranger…’ – ‘I’m no longer quite sure how one writes novels. The few ideas I still have always take the form typical of the theatre…’ – He saw Constantinople 22 or 23 years ago and did not ‘associate this beautiful city – or rather, this beautiful setting – with any state of mind or any philosophical conclusion… I have chosen to stick to the pleasant or unpleasant impression that a new spectacle of nature makes on me, and not to seek how I am involved in it other than through my momentary presence. ’ In this way, he distinguishes himself from Loti, who contemplates death through a ‘wholly natural antithesis’ in the face of ‘this explosion of light and colour…’. – Autograph manuscript. Opening of Dumas Fils’s preface to *Pensées de la solitude* by Princess Ghyka. 2 pp. in-8 Enclosed: - Louis GANDERAX. Autograph letter. 27 November 1908. On Dumas Fils. - Henri de LAPOMMERAYE. Letter. [1871]. On a lecture he gave on Dumas and a note sent to him by Dumas Fils. - René MAIZEROY. Letter to Alexandre Dumas Fils. - Pierre VALDAGNE. Drafts of letters to Alexandre Dumas the Younger. 9 pp. in 12 and in-8. - Unsigned handwritten article: ‘What caused Dumas the Younger’s death?’. 3 pp. in-4.
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About the sale The World of Dumas Father & Son
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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