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an old photo of a man in a suit and tie next to a pile of old papersseveral old books are lined up in a row on a white surfacesix books are lined up on top of each other on a white surfaceseveral old black and white photographs of people and horses
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1 - Ernest Benjamin (1854–1901), writer, member of the Société d…
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Ernest Benjamin (1854–1901), writer, member of the Société des Gens de Lettre and father of René Benjamin Collection of manuscripts, publications, press cuttings and photographs, 1882–1900 2 unpublished handwritten drafts *Ses yeux d’aveugle*, handwritten draft, with corrections and deletions, 31 pp. in-4 and 40 pp. in-8 Untitled [‘Léonie à son beau-frère’], handwritten draft, with corrections and deletions, approx. 100 pp. in-8 2 handwritten notebooks, income and expenditure Handwritten notebook in-8, 1882–1900, listing expenditure and income from published books, articles appearing in the press and royalties from the Society of Men of Letters Handwritten notebook, in-4, 1883–1901, listing, by publication date and revenue received, the titles of prose and verse tales and novels published in the press or by a publishing house, 47 pp. 3 press review notebooks Quarto notebook, 1882, containing pasted-in press cuttings, with the newspaper title and date written in pen; a press review compiled upon the publication of his first collection of poetry, *Veillées poétiques*, 34 pp. Quarto notebook, 1884, press cuttings pasted in relating to Ernest Benjamin, 31 pp. Quarto notebook, 1892–1900, press cuttings, mostly pasted in, of articles relating to Ernest Benjamin, 85 pp. 2 photographic portraits, Eugène Pirou Photographer, Paris, 27 x 21 and 16 x 11 cm + 100 photographic prints, approx. 8 x 5 cm, family (Ernest Benjamin, his wife Berthe Hüe, their sons René and Jean, his father-in-law Ernest Hüe, etc.), landscape views, holiday snaps, etc. 2 issues of the *Chronique de la Société des gens de lettres* No. 7, July 1900, containing the speech delivered by Ernest Benjamin at the dinner on 11 June 1900 No. 5, May 1901, containing the speech delivered by Albert Cim at Montmartre Cemetery on 13 April 1901 during the funeral of Ernest Benjamin, who died on 10 April in Paris 14 publications in small 8vo or bound. Veillées poétiques. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1882, in-8, half-chagrin bound, 133 pp. (2 copies) La Sainte, a novel. 3rd edition. Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1887, in-8, paperback, 317 pp. (2 copies) *Le poète Michel*, a serialised story published in the newspaper *Le Soleil* from 3 September to 17 October 1889, press cuttings pasted onto bound pages. In-8, half-chagrin To Mademoiselle Flocon on her twentieth birthday, 12 May 1891, a poem in verse. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1891, in-8 booklet, 6 pp. (2 copies) Singularité. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1892, in-8, bound in half chagrin, 279 pp. (2 copies) Le montreur de Marionnettes, a one-act fantasy in verse. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, 8vo, half-chagrin binding, 32 pp. (+ 1 paperback copy) The Hundred Business Letters (French, Spanish and English). Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1892, 8vo in Italian style, half-shagreen binding, 127 pp. *Cœur malade*. 2nd edition. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, 8vo, paperback, 272 pp. To Save Her. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1900, 8vo, paperback, 286 pp., with a handwritten dedication signed ‘To my friend in good times and bad, to my dear little wife, from her husband who loves her’ FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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