Anatole France: Signed handwritten letter addressed to Julia Daudet

  

Anatole FRANCE (1844–1924) – Writer and literary critic, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921. Autograph signed letter addressed to Julia Daudet – La Béchellerie, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, undated.

Double 8vo leaf, printed letterhead with his address. Lovely letter in which he expresses his affection for Julia and her son Lucien. I could not have greater joy than to see you and to see your Lucien with you.

Miss Laprévotte, who is well, sends you her most affectionate regards. I am fairly well, but infinitely sad. I shall remain at La Béchellerie as long as I can and, perhaps, all winter. Three weeks ago I received a letter in which Lucien showed his heart, exquisite, and his spirit, charming.

The heat and dryness of the land, which have caused you so much suffering, have taken away all feeling from me. Yet I still retain as much as ever to love you, dear madam, with the deepest respect, the warmest affection, and the greatest admiration.

You are, for all who know you, one of the most precious ornaments of life.