Guy de Maupassant Rare Autographed Letter from Youth (1867)

  

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) - Writer and columnist. Signed autograph letter addressed to his cousin [Louis Le Poittevin] with autograph note by his brother Hervé de Maupassant. Étretat, Tuesday 1st [1867] - 2 pp. Rare letter written at the age of seventeen.

During his vacation in Étretat, while he is in second grade. "It has been a long time since I would have written to offer you my New Year wishes, if I had not been held back in the infirmary by a nasty headache that caused me a lot of suffering; but the country air has had a beneficial effect on me and I am feeling much better today, so I hasten to write to thank you for the money you sent me, and to offer you my most sincere wishes for the new year. I brought my mother a New Year's gift that pleased her greatly; it is a new position in 1st place. I am the only one in my class who has been first twice since the beginning of the year; the first time was in French narration, and this time it is in Latin translation.

We are currently studying chemistry, and I find this science amusing. I plan to dedicate a lot of time to it during the vacation. My mother thanks you very much for the affectionate things you say to me for her, and in turn sends you her best regards. Goodbye, my dear cousin, please believe in the sincere and respectful affection that I have for you, and offer my devoted feelings to my cousin; I warmly embrace my lovely little cousin whom I would be happy to meet one day." Hervé de Maupassant writes following.

"My dear cousin, I also want to thank you for the beautiful gift you gave me and offer you, as well as my cousin and my little cousin, all my New Year wishes. I embrace you with all my heart. Being lazy, he showed little application in his activities, and also brought back sometimes rudely gross manners from his military service: this caused grief to his mother and anger to Guy - who took it as a model for the past non-commissioned officer of his character Duroy in. In 1887, the first symptoms of syphilis appeared, followed by mental disorders and general paralysis.

Guy then took care of him until his death, having him interned in a psychiatric hospital in Lyon-Bron, visiting him, and after his death, took care of his widow and daughter by paying them a pension. This death deeply affected him, and the emotion he felt permeates several pages of. Married to the daughter of a Rouen banker, Louis Le Poittevin had abandoned his law studies to dedicate himself to art, and after taking courses with William Bouguereau, he became a landscape painter. Usual folds, small repair in one corner, see photos.