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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821 - 1867)
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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821 - 1867)
L.A.S. "Charles Baudelaire", Brussels July 4, 1864, to Louis MARCELIN, "owner and director of La Vie Parisienne in Paris| 2 pages in-8 on the letterhead of the Hôtel du Grand Miroir, Brussels, address| mounted on tabs, soft brown morocco binding, case (Loutrel).
Beautiful unpublished letter evoking Edgar Poe, the Petits Poèmes en prose and his project of a book on Belgium.
[Baudelaire left Paris in April 1864 and moved to Belgium, heavily in debt, to organize a lecture tour which did not give him the desired result. This letter, addressed to Louis Marcelin, director of the magazine La Vie Parisienne (1863 - 1914), evokes the poet's projects as well as his money worries].
He sends him "the manuscript promised so long ago, and completely reworked. If I have kept it here for two months, it is because I intended to give readings on Edgar Poe, and I needed to have all my work before me. He leaves Marcelin free to cut, but asks for proofs.
He talks about his Parisian hotelier, Jousset, to whom he owes money, asking
Marcelin "to give him the approximate price of the three pieces", recalling that Marcelin had valued the work between 325 and 375 F, "perhaps a little more".
"I was obliged to drop the prose poems for a while, because I want to use my trip and I have started a work on Belgium. I have to go to Namur, to Liège, to Ghent, to Bruges and to
Antwerp. Everywhere superb monuments and abominable people. -
But towards the end of the month, I will get back to the poems, and I will sort them out for you| that is to say, I will choose those which by their nature can be addressed to your Review, like the two you have kept. He will never be more than three days far from Brussels, where he gives his address to the Hotel du Grand Miroir...
L.A.S. "Charles Baudelaire", Brussels July 4, 1864, to Louis MARCELIN, "owner and director of La Vie Parisienne in Paris| 2 pages in-8 on the letterhead of the Hôtel du Grand Miroir, Brussels, address| mounted on tabs, soft brown morocco binding, case (Loutrel).
Beautiful unpublished letter evoking Edgar Poe, the Petits Poèmes en prose and his project of a book on Belgium.
[Baudelaire left Paris in April 1864 and moved to Belgium, heavily in debt, to organize a lecture tour which did not give him the desired result. This letter, addressed to Louis Marcelin, director of the magazine La Vie Parisienne (1863 - 1914), evokes the poet's projects as well as his money worries].
He sends him "the manuscript promised so long ago, and completely reworked. If I have kept it here for two months, it is because I intended to give readings on Edgar Poe, and I needed to have all my work before me. He leaves Marcelin free to cut, but asks for proofs.
He talks about his Parisian hotelier, Jousset, to whom he owes money, asking
Marcelin "to give him the approximate price of the three pieces", recalling that Marcelin had valued the work between 325 and 375 F, "perhaps a little more".
"I was obliged to drop the prose poems for a while, because I want to use my trip and I have started a work on Belgium. I have to go to Namur, to Liège, to Ghent, to Bruges and to
Antwerp. Everywhere superb monuments and abominable people. -
But towards the end of the month, I will get back to the poems, and I will sort them out for you| that is to say, I will choose those which by their nature can be addressed to your Review, like the two you have kept. He will never be more than three days far from Brussels, where he gives his address to the Hotel du Grand Miroir...