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HUGO Victor (1802-1885).

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HUGO Victor (1802-1885).
L.A.S. "Victor Hugo" Marine Terrace [Jersey] July 14, 1853, [to Ernest DORÉ]| 1 page in-12 on blue paper.
Authorization to set three poems to music.
[The composer Ernest DORÉ (1830-1884) was the brother of the illustrator Gustave Doré.
Gustave Doré].
He received his letter via Brussels, six months late... "I hasten to grant you the authorization you wish for the three pieces: à toi, Encore à toi, Puisqu'ici bas toute âme. This authorization is valid for two years from the date of this letter| my treaties with my publishers oblige me to this limitation"...
The first two poems were published in the Odes, the third in Les Voix intérieures.
2 letters (L.A.S.) on the same subject are enclosed. - Julie HUGO (Victor's sister-in-law, widow of his brother Abel), Saturday [March 1853], transmitting to Mme de La Balme the terms of a letter from Hugo granting Ernest Doré the right to write to her.
Hugo granting Ernest Doré permission for two years "to have the words À toi and Puisqu'ici bas toute âme engraved and sold with his music" (1 p. in-8). - Paul MEURICE (Paul), Paris July 11, 1856, to Ernest Doré, transmitting Victor Hugo's authorization to set La Prière pour tous to music: "Si sa musique vaut la peinture de son frère, elle est bien belle" (½ p. in-8, envelope).