BIB_ID
411479
Accession number
MA 13963.2
Creator
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 15.6 x 10 cm
Notes
Jules Boissière's Fumeurs d'opium was published in 1896; the tenor of Daudet's letter would seem to indicate that it was written shortly thereafter the book's appearance.
Inscriptions/Markings
On the back of this letter, written lightly in pencil, is what appears to be a poem of [frustrated?] love written in Italian and French, along with a list in French of shopkeepers with their addresses.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Stating that he sent the novella without reading it to Georges Hugo (Victor Hugo's grandson, a recognized author and painter) in the hope that he'll publish it in the Nouvelle Revue; complaining that he does not like the contorted, pretentious language of the foreword, which was written by someone else, and asking Boissiere to rewrite it in clear, simple language; adding that he has greatly enjoyed Boissiere's studies of Annam (the former name of Vietnam).
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