Autograph Letter Signed
DUMAS, Alexandre
Publication Date: 1825
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Short autograph letter signed. Dated 1825. Framed with a black-and-white engraving. Fine. Seller Inventory # 323347
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Title: Autograph Letter Signed
Publication Date: 1825
Binding: framed
Condition: fine
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Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages
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Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
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Regarding a missing plate in a volume he purchased. Excellent condition. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Seller Inventory # 40137
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Autograph letter signed.
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[Dieppe, 31 Aug. 1888, postmark]., 1888
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
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8vo. 2 pp. With autograph envelope. To an unidentified count in Saint-Gratien, asking him to forward an originally enclosed letter of apology to Julie Bonaparte, marquess of Roccagiovine: "Voulez-vous bien faire passer la lettre ci-jointe à la marquise de Roccagiovine dont j'ignore l'adresse. Je suis absent de Paris depuis deux mois et ce n'est qu'hier en traversant la ville et en entrant à l'académie que j'y ai trouvé sa carte avec ses félicitations à propos de ma croix de commandeur. Je lui explique mon silence et je lui fais mes excuses, qu'est ce qu'elle doit penser de moi.". Seller Inventory # 63557
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[Dumas fils: Alexandre Dumas the younger, French novelist and playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed [to a prospective agent?] with regard to the sale of paintings in his Paris house.
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. On letterhead of Salneuve par Montcresson Loiret, 1883
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United Kingdom
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An interesting item occupying the zone in which French connoisseurship and literature overlap. In 1880 - three years before the present item - Maurice Mauris (Marchese di Calenzano) described a visit to Dumas fils's Paris house in Rue de Villers. 'The walls above the library are enriched with a priceless collection of paintings, modern and antique. Diaz, Fortuny, Marchal, Vernet, Delacroix are there seen at their best. Dumas generally presents himself with a new painting after he has presented a new book to the public. Those paintings he styles "the prizes of encouragement he has won." This letter is 5pp, 12mo. Fifty-six lines, neatly written. On two matching bifoliate letterheads. In good condition, lightly aged, with unobtrusive remains of tape mounts. Folded once for postage. Addressed to 'Mon cher ami' and signed 'A vous. | A. Dumas fils'. No dated, but with '1883' in another hand at top right of first page. He begins by explaining why he is 'à la campagne', and noting that he doesn't have a very good recollection of the pictures and their prices. He begins by stating: 'Il y avait, je crois, un paysage de Courbet dont je ne demandais que 1200 f. pour moi'. He proceeds to refer to 'un paysage de Rousseau, avec soleil couchant', and 'un jeune fille de Diaz assise dans un jardin avec des fleurs - Homme au balai de Meissonier 1500 f.' The prices, he explains, are 'pour vous et dans l'espérance de vous êtes utile'. The recipient can ask '2 ou 300 f de plus de chaque chose', and the outcome 'fera encore une bonne affaire'. He refers to a 'très joli Fromentin dont Petit m'a offert 1700 f. et que Je lui ai refusé si vous le voulez pour ce prix, il est à vous. Si j'étais a Paris, je trouverais peut être autre chose. Je ne me souviens plus de quelles acquarelles vous voulez parler. Seulement, cette fois, vous le comprenez, les tableaux me peuvent partir que vendus. Ah! il y avait aussi un paysage de Rousseau, crépuscule'. There is another Rousseau, 'de sa première manière, très intéressantes entre 250 et 400 f. selon la dimensions - des Daubigny, des Troyon - Je ne me rappelle plus tout - il y en a dans toutes les chambres'. Seller Inventory # 26134
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Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Note on a single loose leaf page. Collectible. n.d. 4.5" x 5.75". Lightly soiled edges. No markings, tight binding, page clean, and in lovely script. In protective sleeve. 0. Book. Seller Inventory # 005487
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Autograph letter, signed.
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[Paris, not before 1859.] 18??, 1859
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Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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8vo (208 x 135 mm), pp. [1]; written on paper bearing Dumas's blind-stamped 'A D' device in upper left-hand corner; sometime folded, two tears (one just entering text) repaired on verso with tape, some minor dust-soiling and staining.A short note by the novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas (18021870) sending a theatre ticket and arranging to meet the unknown recipient at the Comédie-française ('theatre francais') at midday the following day. He says that he will do whatever he can to obtain a small box at the Théâtre Déjazet: 'Je vais faire tous ce que je pourrai pour avoir une petite loge a Déjazet: venez vousmême demain a midi au theatre francais et attendez moi là'.The Théâtre Déjazet, on the boulevard du Temple, opened under that name on 27 September 1859, having previously been the Folies-Nouvelles. Language: French. Seller Inventory # GU87
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Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condition: Very Good - Fine. A single loose leaf page with it's envelope, both bordered in black. Collectible. n.d. 4.5" x 5.75". Lightly soiled edges. No markings, tight binding, page clean, and in lovely script. In protective sleeve. Addressed to Giraldon Bovinet , Print Publisher (active 1820s-1830s). 0 Size: Octavo. Book. Seller Inventory # 005488
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Autograph letter signed.
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
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8vo. 2 ½ pp. In French, assessing a play he received. Seller Inventory # 36539
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Autograph letter signed "Charles Nodier" written out to his friend Alexandre Dumas "Mon cher ami,."
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Seller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Undated, around 1836. 1 leaf 8vo. on light-blue paper. 16 lines and signed "Tout á vous et de coeur/ Charles Nodier" The letter seems to deal with Alexander Dumas' novel "Voyages de Gabriel Payot". On verso of the letter is transscribed in Nodier's hand "Monsieur Alexandre Dumas,/ cour d'Orleans No 3./ Paris". Marks after folding. Faint scattered brownspots. Seller Inventory # 59408
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Seller: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Germany
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8vo. 1 page. Dumasasks the French writer and librettist Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) for a favour to assist his friendMr deLancival. "Mon cher Scribe, Je vous adresse Mr Lancival qui veut vous remercier de ce que vous allez encore faire.Pressez la commission car son départ est fixé je crois à jeudi. Je vous serre franchement loyalement la main, vous savez c que chez moi ce n'est pas une simple formalité de politesse.". Seller Inventory # 63197
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Autograph letter signed.
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No place, [1847]., 1847
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
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8vo. ½ p. on bifolium. - Together with three letters in relation to a magnetist séance organized by Alexandre Dumas. 8vo. Altogether 8 pp. Further includes a printed leaflet of the "Cercle Magnétique de Paris" from March 1882. Highly interesting collection of letters relating to a séance with the celebrated medium Alexis Didier, organized by Dumas on 10 October 1847. The autograph letter by Dumas is addressed to the Abbé Villette, chaplain at Saint-Cyr, who was present at the séance and is central to Dumas's description of the event in an article for La Presse from 17 October 1847 entitled "Magnétisme". Dumas asks the Abbé for a meeting in Versailles in response to a letter: "Oui je me mets sur les rangs. Mais voyez je reçois votre lettre aujourd'hui. Pouvez vous prendre un autre rendez-vous je veux être entendu à Versailles - voyez agréez - mon jour sera le votre où plutôt votre jour sera le mien". While the context of this undated letter is not specified, it may have been written in the aftermath of the publication of the article that had affected Villette greatly. On 24 October 1847, Villette wrote to the director of La Presse, Émile de Girardin, quoting an earlier letter that he had asked Girardin to publish in reply to Dumas's article and renewing this request: "In an article entitled 'Magnetism' my name appeared in your journal of the 17th inst.; immediately and for important reasons I appealed to your justice, objecting to this article. My request should have appeared on the 20th inst. and my letter has nevertheless not been seen among the columns of La Presse. [.] Here is a copy of my first letter: a friend of mine has just brought me the issue of your journal from the 17th inst., wherein I see, to my great astonishment, M. Alexandre Dumas in an article [on] Magnetism, citing my name in testimony to the facts that he articulates. Mere chance brought me to this séance of magnetism: I did not express my opinion either for or against the facts cited by M. Dumas; why then does he choose to stress my being a priest, who must remain a stranger to everything that is not religion? I have never liked to talk publicly about myself but today I am forced to overcome this repugnance because I cannot allow anyone to invoke my name to vouch for the facts he states and for the consequences that could be drawn from them" (transl.). - Indeed, Dumas' article from 17 October 1847 states that Villette joined the séance accidentally and more or less unsuspectingly. As Villette and Didier did not know each other and Villette was not dressed in his cassock, Dumas asked the "somnambulant" Didier about Villette's profession and his work as a chaplain at Saint-Cyr. To the great astonishment of the participants, Didier gave the correct answers, at least according to the article. - It is unclear whether Villette had to fear negative consequences from the clergy or his employer for being invoked in an article on magnetism. He did, however, receive at least two letters from readers of La Presse, who were eager to know more about the séance and attached great importance to Villette's opinion on magnetism; these letters form part of the collection. On 22 October 1847, Jules Bouly de Lesdain, a judge in Dunkerque, wrote in reference to the article, finally to ask Villette: "In spite of all the merit we all recognize in our great novelist as a writer, we are a little suspicious of the deviations of his imagination, and when it comes to serious matters, we need further testimony than his to assure us that he has not been mistaken, that he could not have been mistaken. I would like to believe in magnetism, but I shall still hesitate unless a respectable testimony such as yours, dear Sir, proves to me that my hesitation is unfounded, that my doubts are not reasonable. I do not have the honour of knowing you, dear Sir, but I have the confidence to address you, convinced that you will enlighten me and tell me whether I should believe or not" (transl.). - Even more curious is a long letter by Colonel Julien Combe, commander of the fortress of Soissons and "former pupil of the military school of Saint-Cyr" from 27 October 1847, that invokes Villette's priesthood in requesting a final answer to the question whether "God has deigned to grant to some privileged creatures like Alexis such a large share of his immeasurable intelligence" and whether Villette really "arrived unexpectedly at M. Alex.dre Dumas' house, in such a way that he could not warn Alexis, and provide him with the necessary information on your account". Should this be true, Combe "will believe in it as in the mysteries of our religion", and asks Villette for Alexis Didier's contact information. - We do not know whether or not Alexandre Dumas actually believed in magnetism, but occult phenomena featured prominently in his novels. The article on the séance was certainly just as much an advertisement for his serialized novel "Joseph Balsamo" that is indirectly referenced as it is testimony to his fascination with magnetism. - Alexis Didier (1826-86) was one of the most famous mediums and clairvoyants of his time. He was on familiar terms with Alexandre Dumas and inspired his characterization of the Italian occultist Joseph Balsamo. - The letter by Dumas with several minor tears to the margins minimally affecting the text and stronger browning to the upper margin. The letter by Villette shows strong foxing and minor tears partly affecting the text; the letters to him have minimal browning and tears. Seller Inventory # 60935
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