Victor HUGO

Lettre autographe signée de Victor Hugo, écrite depuis Hauteville House, datée de la main de l'auteur du 7 juillet [1865 ?]. 1 pages à l'encre noire sur un feuillet de vergé bleu. Traces de plis transversaux inhérentes à l'envoi. Infimes trous causés par la pression de la plume de l'écrivain. Une légère tache transparente en pied.

Autograph letter signed by Victor Hugo to poet Algernon Swinburne, 1 page written in black ink on one sheet. Discreet folds, a small angular tear to upper left corner.
A rare and emphatic declaration of affection by Victor Hugo for the English people who granted him asylum and continue to applaud his writings. From Guernsey, Hugo writes to one of his most fervent British admirers, the pre-Raphaelite poet Swinburne, who considered Hugo the "first poet of [his] age", and the "spiritual ruler of the 19th century".

Autograph letter dated and signed by Victor Hugo, to his great friend and personal physician Emile Allix. 30 lines in black ink on two pages of a bifolium signed with the single letter "V", greatest mark of affection the writer could give, usually reserved for his two sons, his daughter, his wife and his friends Auguste Vacquerie and Paul Meurice.
Back in Guernsey in a deserted Hauteville House, Hugo was in the middle of writing Quatre Vingt Treize and acutely felt the absence of his close friends and family. He thanked his friend, the illustrious doctor Allix, a member of the circle of Jersey outlaws, who had also stayed at Hauteville House many...