Victor SEGALEN
"Je souhaite la garder longtemps car, eu égard aux vahinés des camarades, soûlardes, tarées, phtisiques, c'est une excellente acquisition."Double signed autograph letter addressed to Emile Mignard and embellished with a small drawing representing the horizon of the Pomotou
Manga-Reva [Mangareva] • & Tahiti [Tahiti] 22 février & 1er mars 1903|11.20 x 17.70 cm|6 pages 1/2 sur 2 doubles feuillets
Autograph letter signed by Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard. Six and a half pages written in black ink on two double leaves. Transverse folds inherent to postal transmission.
Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor from Brest, was one of Segalen's closest childhood friends whom he met at the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Brest. The writer maintained an abundant and very regular correspondence with this comrade in which he described with humor and intimacy his daily life in the four corners of the globe. It was at Mignard's wedding, on February 15, 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.
Fine letter relating the discover
€3,000