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Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant, to the critic Vittorio Pica. 1 page ¼ in black ink on two pages of a bifolium with letterhead of his initials, "Sur le Bel-Ami / Antibes". Autograph envelope enclosed, bearing numerous stamps and postmarks.Discreet sepia ink offsetting on the first sheet, from another Maupassant letter.

 
Touching letter from Maupassant with failing eyesight, lamenting his inability to read the laudatory reviews by his correspondent Vittorio Pica. The latter published numerous studies in the Italian literary magazines Fantasio, Napoli Letteraria and La Tavola Rotonda on the writer's...

Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant, to the critic Vittorio Pica. 10 lines in black ink on one page of a bifolium.
Horizontal fold and very light shadow over 2mm on the upper edge of the sheet.
Charming note from Maupassant from Etretat, thanking Vittorio Pica for a laudatory review, published in the Italian literary magazine Fantasio. Pica would devote several studies to Maupassant's masterworks in this magazine, including Mademoiselle Fifi, Pot-Bouille, Une Vie, and Bel-Ami.

"Monsieur et cher Confrère,
Zola me transmet votre aimable article du Fantasio. Il m'a fait le plus grand plaisir ; et je vous prie de...

Guy de Maupassant's autograph note to Countess Potocka, lines in black ink on one page. Published in Philippe Dahhan, Guy Maupassant and women: Essay , Bertout, 1996.
from Guy de Maupassant
addressed to the countess Potocka, rich worldly and intellectual aristocrat whose great beauty and fickle personality appear in filigree news and masterpieces novelistic of the author ( Mont-Oriol , Our Heart, Humble drama ).
Maupassant wrote to Emmanuela Pignatelli di Cergharia, wife of Count Nicholas Potocki, who occupied Avenue Friedland in Paris, a sumptuous hotel where she gathered a real court of sighers "died of love for her", nicknamed...