HUGO Victor (1802-1885)

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HUGO Victor (1802-1885)
L.A.S. "V.", Ostend "chez Lantoine" 25 October [1865], "6 p.m. in the evening", to his wife and children [in Brussels]; 1 page and a half in-8. Family letter on his return from Belgium to Guernsey, when Chansons des rues et des bois has just been published. "How silly! Very big time. Impossible to leave. If I had been alone, I might have gone anyway, and I would have been quite wrong, because at the moment we don't yet have the dispatch announcing the arrival in Dover of the boat that left this morning at 8 a.m. that would have taken me. So this caution has been wise. We think the sea will be calm tomorrow morning, but in any case, I shall continue to be wise. Be quiet, I am thinking of you, my beloved ones"... He adds: "All the Belgian newspapers that arrive here are full of Ch. des R. et des B. Don't forget to send me in Guernsey as many of these newspapers as you can. Shake hands ex imo with M. Gustave Frédérix, [...] it will save me a lot of trouble with this line in the Independence - M. Victor Hugo has left Brussels. He has returned to his residence in Guernsey"... An a.s. ticket is attached. "V.H." of encouragement to a writer (4 July, defects); and an autograph draft or "chip" crossed out after insertion (1 page in-12)
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