Autograph letter signed « Valentine de Lamartine » to Victor de Laprade
Paris, 31st May 1872, 4 pp. in-8° on mourning paper
« Thank you, thank you for thus satisfying yourself in my work, the last worship that I can still render to the One who has been the Happiness and glory of my life. »
Autograph letter signed “Lamartine” to a friend
N.p [4th April 1853], 3 pages in-8 on double sheet, original envelope
“I don’t know anything about Hugo other than that he’s in Jersey with his family at his studies”
Letter signed « Lamartine » to M. Meyer
Paris, 21st May [1842], 1 p. small in-8°
« I have not received the comments on Montesquieu’s Persian letters of which you were kind enough to mention to me »
Autograph letter signed “Lamartine” to a colleague
N;p, 22nd January 1851, 4 pages in-8 on blue laid paper
“The education of freedom cannot be done under despotism”
Autograph (draft) letter signed « Lamartine » to Sainte-Beuve
Mâcon, [château de] St Point, 23 Nov[ember] 1836, 4 pp. in-4°
« I steal a few early hours from my nights for our sweet and strong youthful dreams »
Autograph letter signed « Al. de Lamartine » to Stéphanie de Virieu
Paris, 14th April 1841, 3 p. 1/2 in-8° on laid paper
« Was he not also my brother, and more than many brothers? »
Letter signed « Lamartine » to Louis de Jacquelot
Paris, 8 9bre [November 1840], 2 p. in-8°
« The serious circumstances in which we found ourselves made me go out… of my usual calm in politics »
Autograph letter signed « Lamartine » to a novelist
N.p [Saint Point] 10th August 1838, 4 pages in-8 on double sheet
“Ce seront quelques heures de gloires volées à la vérité”
Autograph letter signed “Lamartine” to a colleague
43 rue Ville-Evêque, Paris, 30 January 1856, 4 p. in-8
“You would be the Plato of politics. But current times require Machiavelli”
Autograph letter signed twice “Lamartine” and his initials, to Pierre-François Savatier-Laroche
N.p [24th January 1854], 2 pages 1/2 in-8 on double sheet, laid paper
“If the country of France can help me with 2 000 000 f”