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French Language Literary Letters
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A fine group of three letters signed by Felicien Rops, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, 1824-1880, as follows:
1. Alphonse de Lamartine. Autograph letter signed ("A. de Lamartine"), 2 pages (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 235 x 186 mm), Montelos near Dijon, 22 April 1824, to the poet Madame Amable Tastu (1798-1885); lightly browned with a few spots, formerly folded, a few edge tears touching a letter. He is sending her back proofs with corrections she asked of him, reminding her "... they are very imperfect but you are certainly aware that verses remade without inspiration are all futile." Her Poésies appeared in 1826.
2. Felicien Rops. Autograph letter signed ("Felicien Rops"), 4 pages (8 x 5 1/4 in.; 203 x 134 mm), Paris, 3 October 1855, to his young friend Julien Chamond, with a three-quarter page highly-modelled pencil drawing showing Fantaisie sent by Rops to bring Julien to Paris, and a smaller ink drawing of four heads and a measure of music; formerly folded, some soiling and minor ink stains. The Belgian artist and writer, waxing lyrical about his life in Paris "where every stone is a souvenir; where twenty centuries have passed in raising up palaces, doujons, the cathedrals - the history of a whole people written in masterpieces. Come will you share my riches?" The letter was owned by the editor of the Autographic Mirror who published it, in translation, in the 20 January 1866 number.
3. Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans (1838-1894). Autograph letter signed ("Lo. d'Orleans, Ct de Paris"), 4 pages (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.; 188 x 120 mm), on letterhead "Chateau d'Eu Seine Inferieure", 26 January 1880. Writing in English, possibly to his publisher, he reports on the progress of volume 5 of his History of the Civil War in America (published 1875-1888). "The VIth volume is ready and both will be published together in less than twelve months I hope, although the maps may perhaps delay a little the issue." He presents his arrangements with the editor Calman Levy, and the periodicals in the States that aim to review it, asking that advance copies be sent them.
1. Alphonse de Lamartine. Autograph letter signed ("A. de Lamartine"), 2 pages (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 235 x 186 mm), Montelos near Dijon, 22 April 1824, to the poet Madame Amable Tastu (1798-1885); lightly browned with a few spots, formerly folded, a few edge tears touching a letter. He is sending her back proofs with corrections she asked of him, reminding her "... they are very imperfect but you are certainly aware that verses remade without inspiration are all futile." Her Poésies appeared in 1826.
2. Felicien Rops. Autograph letter signed ("Felicien Rops"), 4 pages (8 x 5 1/4 in.; 203 x 134 mm), Paris, 3 October 1855, to his young friend Julien Chamond, with a three-quarter page highly-modelled pencil drawing showing Fantaisie sent by Rops to bring Julien to Paris, and a smaller ink drawing of four heads and a measure of music; formerly folded, some soiling and minor ink stains. The Belgian artist and writer, waxing lyrical about his life in Paris "where every stone is a souvenir; where twenty centuries have passed in raising up palaces, doujons, the cathedrals - the history of a whole people written in masterpieces. Come will you share my riches?" The letter was owned by the editor of the Autographic Mirror who published it, in translation, in the 20 January 1866 number.
3. Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans (1838-1894). Autograph letter signed ("Lo. d'Orleans, Ct de Paris"), 4 pages (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.; 188 x 120 mm), on letterhead "Chateau d'Eu Seine Inferieure", 26 January 1880. Writing in English, possibly to his publisher, he reports on the progress of volume 5 of his History of the Civil War in America (published 1875-1888). "The VIth volume is ready and both will be published together in less than twelve months I hope, although the maps may perhaps delay a little the issue." He presents his arrangements with the editor Calman Levy, and the periodicals in the States that aim to review it, asking that advance copies be sent them.
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