"Je vous enverrai moi-même prochainement un nouveau volume "Miss Harriet"

Autograph letter dated and signed by Guy de Maupassant, to the critic Vittorio Pica. 21 lines in black ink on one page of a bifolium. Envelope enclosed, on which Guy de Maupassant has added these words: "In case of absence send to Rome Offices of the Fanfulla della Domenica."
Uusal horizontal fold.
Guy de Maupassant travels much and stays a few days in Cannes where he received Pica's last letter: "I received your postcard in Cannes today, which has made I don't know what journey trying to reach me. I've been wandering a lot...".  He is touched by the admiring compliments he receives from his correspondent: "Thank you for the kind things you said to me. I'm writing to my publisher to send you the "Contes de la Bécasse" and makes sure to send him his next work: "I myself will soon be sending you a new volume of 'Miss Harriet'.
An art critic of Neapolitan origin, Pica took an early interest in the French naturalist and symbolist movements: "Curious about all avant-garde movements, he was first interested in the naturalists - he maintained close relations with Maupassant, Huysmans and Zola - and then in the symbolists, especially Mallarmé and Verlaine, to whom he devoted studies of admirable accuracy" (Petralia, Bibliographie de Rimbaud en Italie cit., p. 37). A contributor to the most prestigious national and international modernist magazines, he was one of the first founders of the Venice Biennale, and acted as its general secretary from 1920 to 1926.
Precious answer elaborately signed by the writer to an admirer of his work.