Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Jules Sandeau
Croisset, 26 January [1862], 2 p. in-8 on blue laid paper
« Yesterday I received a letter from Baudelaire inviting me to ask for your voice for his candidacy to the Academy »
Autograph letter signed « Ste Beuve » to Auguste Lacaussade
N.p.n.d, « this 21st July », 1 p. in-8° on creamy paper
« Musset should not be judged until after having reread Byron. Then one would have the true feeling of insults and distances »
Autograph letter signed « C.B. » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Brussels], « Monday 13th November 1865 », 4 p. in-8°
« I feel forgotten. I am sad. I’m no longer good for anything. I’m bored to death »
Autograph letter signed « ton Gve Flaubert » to Maxime Du Camp
[Paris, 13 October 1869], 2 p. in-8° on beige laid paper
« Another one gone! The little band is dwindling! The few castaways from the Raft of the Medusa are disappearing! »
Autograph aphorism signed « Victor Hugo »
N.p.n.d.., 1/2 p. in-8° oblong
« To dream is happiness; to wait is life »
Autograph letter signed “Victor Hugo” to a critic
28 January [1870], H[auteville] H[ouse], [Guernesey], 1 p. in-4
“I dedicate, like Aeschylus, my works to time”
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 “SteBeuve” to a gentleman
17th 9bre [November] 1865
“Nodier, at least, says it in his Memories of the Revolution”
Autograph letter signed « Ste Beuve » to Adèle Foucher
Besançon, 14 October 1829, 3 p. in-4°
« In truth, madame, what a foolish idea I had to leave your hospitable home without purpose, the fruitful and encouraging words of Victor… »