Victor Hugo Signed Autograph Letter

  

Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), French writer, poet, and politician. October 19 (1865); 2 pages in-12° on blue paper, address on the 4th page. Small ink corrosion hole of 5mm with loss of one word. A beautiful letter from the poet that alternately addresses the issue of an identity theft, his work, and the marriage of his son Charles.

"Your sense of justice has not deceived you. This random gentleman is not related to me and wants to exploit my name. I have had no brother named Léopold.

The eldest was named Abel and the second Eugène. What you tell me about another question is also true and reveals your deep feeling for art. It belongs to art, and to true art. Hence the exception I ask for him, and which I insist upon.

As I wrote to Mr. I confide all this to you.

I am writing in haste. What you tell me about the Ch. [Songs of the Streets and Woods, a collection of poems published in 1865 in Belgium and then the following year in France]. You are a delicate spirit as well as a firm and good heart. [Marriage of his son Charles Hugo on October 17 to Alice Lehaene]. My wishes for happiness go from you to him (. Victor Hugo, in exile, maintains a prolific literary activity. He publishes "Les Misérables" in 1862 and in 1865 his collection of poems "Songs of the Streets and Woods".