Guy De Maupassant / Signed Autograph Letter / Syphilis / Sickness / Folie / 1891

Autograph letter card signed "maupassant" to a friend 24 rue boccador, [paris, February 24, 1891], 2 p. In-12° oblong date added with another hand on the second page (probably by the recipient), small spot in the lower right margin of the second page without affecting the text. Unpublished testimony of the writer, letting appear the ever more violent symptoms of syphilis, contracted during his early years. I'll go to the [theatre of] gymnasium sometimes, and I'll stay there if I can. In fact, I have to return at four o'clock, as the Mathilde princess told me she'd come and have a cup of tea at my house. As for dinner, do you want to allow me to answer you only according to the state where I will feel sometimes. But I don't think that's possible, as long as I'm sick.

Please don't make me write even a ticket [. I cordially shake your hand. As evidenced by the abundant correspondence addressed to his various doctors in early 1891, Maupassant suffered from new symptoms of syphilis (alopecia, loss of memory).

The writer is becoming more and more procedural and unable to work. In his last years, he developed an exaggerated love for loneliness, an instinct of malady conservation, a constant fear of death, and a certain paranoia.

Guy de maupassant began in 1890 the foreign soul, which he would never end. In the same year, he wrote: "This impossibility of serving me with my eyes.

Some dogs who scream very well express my condition. I can't write, I can't see.

It's the disaster of my life. Maupassant announces here to attend the musotte rehearsals, written in collaboration with Norman jacques, in the gymnasium theatre. The first took place a few days later, on March 4, and was a success. This item is in the category "collections\letters, old papers\autographs\historical persons".

The seller is "laurent-autographs" and is located in this country: fr. This item can be shipped to the following country: whole world.

number of pages: 2
country of manufacture: france
subtype: autograph on paper
region: Ile-de-france
theme: literature