BIB_ID
437707
Accession number
MA 14345.102
Creator
Perrotin, Charles Aristide, 1796-1866, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1859 February 5
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.5 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery, "Correspondence / de Béranger / Perrotin / Executeur testamentaire et legataire universal / de de Béranger ..."
Letter responding to Gore's complaint that in publishing Béranger's correspondence, Perrotin will be committing “social treason.”
Letter responding to Gore's complaint that in publishing Béranger's correspondence, Perrotin will be committing “social treason.”
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Perrotin says that the publishing house is acting only with the general agreement and cooperation of Béranger's best friends. The publisher is performing an act of devotion and attempting to create a work that is in the interest of the public. They have already received almost 2000 letters, and that is only part of what they are expecting. No friend of Béranger's will have anything to complain about in the manner in which they will be published. Perrotin is pleased to be able to count Gore among these friends and hopes that, certain of their discretion and good will, and confident in the success of their efforts, she will stop worrying that they will misuse the precious letters. In fact, Gore, who liked Béranger so sincerely, can be of greater help to Perrotin by contributing more letters. She can remove from them or indicate any parts that she feels should not be published, and they will obey her precisely.
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