Unpublished autograph manuscript, signed « Emile Zola »
[Grosvenor Hotel, London, 19 July 1898], 5 pages in-4 on ligned paper
“Of all my open letter to the president, a few lines had been skilfully extracted… to prevent the truth to shine on the Dreyfus affair”
Autograph manuscript signed « Léon Daudet »
N.p.n.d [Paris, June 1932], 4 pp. large in-4°
« Manet is the beauty of colour, the celebration of the decomposition of light through the prism »
“J’accuse…!” Letter to the President of the Republic
Paris, L’Aurore, 13 janvier 1898, 4 pages in-plano
“I have only one passion, that of light, in the name of humanity that has suffered so much and who has the right to happiness“
Autograph letter signed « Votre Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
[Paris, 17 December 1874], 1 p. in-8°
« Tourgueneff, de Goncourt & Daudet will be at my place on Sunday »
Two autograph letters signed « Gve Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 2th May and 3rd June 1874], 5 pp. in-8°
« Father Faujas is sinister and great – a true director! How well he manipulates the woman, how skillfully he seizes her, taking her by charity, then brutalizing her! »
Autograph letter signed « Votre vieux Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
Croisset, Sunday [15 février 1880], 3 p. in-8°
« Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real »
Autograph letter signed « Gus Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 25th July 1876], 3 p. in-8°
« I received yesterday from our young friend Maupassant a very pleasant epistle, and full of the detail of his lust – on a boat, with a fat woman »
Autograph letter signed “GClemenceau” to Michel Alexandre Gaston Tournier
Paris, 20th December [18]99, 1 p. 1/4 in-8
“I desire nothing more, as you may suggest, to get back in the right fight”
Autograph letter signed “G.C” to his secretary Étienne Winter at the L’Aurore newspaper
Paris, February 12, 1898 (post office), 1 page in-8, pneumatic letter
“Have me for tonight the shorthand of the whole trial“
Autograph letter signed “Dreyfus” to Alfred Bruneau
N.p, 20th Nov[ember] 1901, 1 page in-8
“Let’s hope we end up finding what we’re looking for”
Autograph letter signed “C. Pissarro” to his son Rodolphe « Rodo » Pissarro
Le Havre, 21st Sep(tember) 1903, ¾ page in-8 on graph paper
“I am part of the Zola pilgrimage delegation at Médan”
Autograph letter signed « Alexandrine Zola » to Gabriel Thyébaut
[Paris], 7 8bre [octobre] 1906, 8 pp. in-8° à l’encre violette sur papier de deuil
« I always think I die at every step, when I go up to this study in which life has also gone »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to the journal L’Avenir national
Paris, 12th June 1865, 2 p. 1/2 in-8, Librairie Hachette & Cie letterhead
« You have kindly promised me your support, and I commend myself to you »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Fernand Desmoulin
Médan, 8th August 1895, 2 pp. in-8°
« I ended up despising the weather, going out in the downpours, which means that I come back soaked, covered in mud »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Paul Meurice
Paris, Monday (February 1870), 2 pages in-8, address on verso
« I would like to do for Balzac what Camille Pelletan has done for Flaubert…”
Corrected proofs for his novel The Beast within
Paris, January 1890, 45 proofs printed on recto
« I love you, I will never let anyone hurt you… See, how good it is to be so, one in another ! »
Autograph letter signed “Z” to Georges Charpentier
London, Tuesday 28th February [18]99, 4 pages in-8
“My only hope lies in the force of truth”
Autograph letter signed « E » to Georges Charpentier
[Queen’s Hotel, Norwood, London] Sunday 30th Oct.[ober] 1898, 4 pages in-8
“Victory is coming”
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Gustave Flaubert
Médan, 30th November [18]78, 4 pages in-8 on double sheet, black ink on laid paper
“My ambition is to show the whore’s daily life”
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to a colleague
Paris, 12th November [18]93, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
“When I have finished a book and given it to the public, it no longer exists for me. All my passion collapses”
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Berger de la Magne
Médan, 19th June [18]81, 1 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« The religious opinions of Le Figaro unfortunately prevent me from talking about it »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Albert Lacroix]
Paris, 13 Sept[ember] 1867, 2 pp. in-8°
« I’m counting on a horror success »
Unpublished autograph letter signed “Emile Zola” to Eugène Pelletan
Paris, January 9th 1869, 2 pages in-8 on laid paper
“I make a living with my writing”