Charles BAUDELAIRE Signed Autograph Letter. Edgar Poe and the Prose Poems

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing for many years in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts. Autographed letter signed to Louis Marcelin. Two pages in-8° on letterhead from the Grand Miroir hotel in Brussels.

Sheet without damage to the text. Unpublished letter in the correspondence of La Pléiade. "I had to momentarily let go of the prose poems. Magnificent and important letter from the poet evoking successively his lectures on Edgar Allan Poe, the temporarily interrupted writing of his Little Prose Poems in favor of his pamphlet against Belgium. "Dear Sir, here is the manuscript promised so long ago, and completely revised.

If I kept it here for two months, it was because I intended to give lectures on Edgar Poe, and I needed all my work before my eyes. As we agreed, you may cut wherever you like, and I recommend again the proofs to you. Now, I want to speak to you again about Mr. [Auguste Jousset, master of the hotel in Dieppe who helped Baudelaire financially], whom I charge to deliver these two packages to you, and to whom I owe money.

It would please him and render me a great service to hand him the approximate price of the three pieces. If it is a violation of the established practice on your part, violate the practice for me, I will know how to thank you. We had calculated that the work consisting of 1300 to 1500 lines should represent a sum of 325 to 375. I had to let go of the prose poems momentarily. Because I want to make use of my trip and I have started a work on Belgium.

I must go to Namur, Liège, Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp. Everywhere are superb monuments, and abominable people. But towards the end of the month, I will return to the poems, and I will make a selection for you; that is to say, I will choose those which by their nature can fit into your Review, like the two you have kept. If you have something to write to me, I will never be out of Brussels for more than three days.

But in closing, I ask you again to do everything you can to relieve Mr. Please accept, dear Sir, the assurance of my perfect sentiments. In April 1864, deeply in debt, Baudelaire left for Belgium to undertake a lecture tour, but his talents as an enlightened art critic met with little success.

He then settled in Brussels and initiated, in June 1864, the writing of a fierce pamphlet against his ephemeral host country. La Belgique déshabillée would remain unfinished. The first excerpts were published posthumously in 1887, and then in its entirety in 1952. Under the title Pauvre Belgique.

Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Petits Poèmes en prose, was published posthumously in 1869, at the initiative of Charles Asselineau and Théodore de Banville, in the fourth volume of the Complete Works of Baudelaire, published by Michel Lévy. The fifty pieces composing this collection were written between 1857 and 1864. Provenance: Christie's Paris sale.

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