Hugo, Victor

One page (8 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.; 223 x 182 mm.), signed "Victor Hugo", in French, brown ink on blue paper, with the envelope with autograph address; very slightly faded, laid down on Japan paper. 

Victor Hugo on the American abolition of Slavery: "There is no North, no South; There's only one Great Republic".

In this letter, Hugo thanks Colonel John Lewis Peyton for sending him an inscribed copy of his book The American Crisis: Or, Pages from the Note-book of a State agent during the Civil War (1867). "Je suis votre concitoyen en liberté et en humanité. L’abolition de l’esclavage a rendu l’Amérique à elle-même ; désormais il n’y a plus ni nord, ni sud ; il y a la grande République - [I am your fellow citizen in liberty and humanity. Abolition of slavery made America her own; now, there is no North, no South; There's only one Great Republic]".