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Letter from Alexandre Dumas, Paris, to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 1881 September 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
196263
Accession number
MA 14179
Creator
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1881 September 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (3 pages) ; 21 x 13.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
Written on blue stationery, with printed letterhead address: 98, Avenue de Villiers.
Trimmed front panel of stamped and postmarked envelope affixed to page 3 of letter, reading: Monsieur Le Chevalier / Sacher Masoch / Leipsig Rinderstrasse 12 / Leipsic [illegible] / Allemagne.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Declining an invitation to collaborate with him on a book, saying that he has enough trouble being understood by his own countrymen and has made up his mind never to write for publication in foreign countries.