SAINTE BEUVE (Charles) Autographed letters signed and documents (son and father)

  

SAINTE BEUVE (Charles Augustin and his father Charles François). Autographed letters from the son and then from the father. 1/ - Letters from Charles Augustin. A note (undated) of thanks for... Having made me read Master Adam; please try to have a note made for me, I won't be able to write an article for a long time, and even I won't write many more for the review, in some time...

1 page in-8°, address on the fourth page. On August 8, 1861, to my dear poet, Thank you for making me relive the complete antique masterpiece. Thanks to your fidelity and the feeling you brought to it, (for talent alone would not have sufficed), the effect is very great; the whole triumphs over our habits; these choirs are accepted and applauded; and the effect would be even greater if the curtain were not lowered a single time, and if the spectator remained under the effect of terror the entire time... Oedipus Rex is the king of dramas.

Madame Lacroix has been sovereignly kind... In which he offers a small volume of [his] poems. You will find some that are memories of Italy, simple flashes but finally flashes captured in that beautiful sunlight... You will be indulgent to everything; there are a few excesses of youth... I am leaving to go seclude myself in the countryside, close by, in order to finish large volumes of which only one has been published for a month.

I am very weary, very old, not too unwell otherwise: and it is necessary to use the last finishing forces for the work and for art.... 2 pages in-8°, an old restoration tear. To his printer for his book "Portraits of Women": It has been nearly four years that this book has been missing from the bookstore and that I have been asked for it. I beg you, look better after your interests and mine... 2/ - Letter and document from Charles François (the father). Autographed signed letter, a complaint to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, (Talleyrand), regarding an altercation and "acts of aggression" between a Courier, called "Courier Moustache", from the Ministry and a Collector of Barriers (City Gate) in Saint Inglevert (between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais).

One page in-4°, front and back, signed Sainte Beuve (the father), dated Boulogne-sur-Mer on the 29th of Ventôse, Year XI (March 20, 1803). Accompanied by the report and a letter from the prefect of Pas de Calais to the minister of foreign relations signed Sainte Beuve for a true copy. He became the successful bidder of the 19th auction. Very good condition, with a red postal mark (Boulogne) and a black one P. The report, on 2 double pages, describes the facts reported by Sainte Beuve in his letter.

On the fourth page the address. An original engraving in-4° by Rajon, portrait of Sainte Beuve. He is credited with a number of important works that have profoundly marked literature and philology. Included are 3 letters and a poem from Jules Troubat, secretary of Sainte Beuve (the son).