Jules de Goncourt - Lot 113

Lot n° 113
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Jules de Goncourt - Lot 113
Jules de Goncourt L.A.S., to Paul VERLAINE. S.l., January 13, 1867. Envelope with autograph address, stamp and postal marks preserved. Freckles. Verlaine: "a brave and delicate one". Beautiful letter: "Thank you for your verses: they dream and they paint. Artist's melancholy chiselled by a poet, I would call them so if I dared to name them. You have this true gift: the rarity of the idea, and the exquisite line of the words. Your play on the Seine is a beautiful, sinister poem, blending like a morgue with a Notre Dame. You feel and you suffer Paris, and your time. L.A.S. By Edmond de Goncourt to Henry Houssaye. Auteuil, September 14, 1877. ½ p. in-8. Envelope with autograph address, stamps and postmarks preserved. Goncourt thanks him for his "great and charming article" and would like to start their dinners together again. Provenance: collection of Dr Jean H
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