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Handwritten, censored letter by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, written in fine writing across two pages addressed to his wife Renée-Pélagie. A number of examples of underlinings, crossing-out and erasing.
Without a date, this letter was written in early March 1781 in Vincennes prison.
The end of the letter was mutilated at the time, probably by the prison administration which destroyed the Marquis' licentious correspondence. In 1948 the letter was found as it was when the Marquis' trunk, which had been sealed by the family since 1814, was opened; it was published in this reduced form as part of the Marquis de Sade's correspondence.
Provenance: family...
