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Victor HUGO - Signed autograph letter

Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), French writer

Autograph letter signed to the writer and poet Delphine de Girardin. June 28 (1840); 1 page in-4 °, address on the back.

Charming letter from Victor Hugo who is impatient to know the last column of the writer: "Would you be good enough, Madam, to convey this thank you to your stranger whose charming serial I have just read?" And you ! What a lovely letter you wrote to us yesterday! I ask you a thousand pardons, but I am delighted that your Unknown has given me this opportunity to put my heart and soul at your feet… ”



Delphine de Girardin (1804 - 1855), whose mother writer, Sophie Nichault de la Vallette, held a literary salon in her time, published her first verses, in the Muse française, at the age of sixteen. His marriage to the journalist and politician Émile de Girardin, helps him to publish spiritual chronicles on contemporary Paris in the newspaper La Presse. The Courrier de Paris is a great success. She also wrote several novels including Le Lorgnon, short story, Monsieur le Marquis de Pontanges, La Canne by M. de Balzac, as well as dramas such as Judith, Cléopâtre, C'est la fault du mari. Its literary salon is frequented by the greatest writers of its time.
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