Letter from Hugo to an unknown correspondent

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 VMH/1/587/15
  • Dates of Creation
      4 Oct [1862]
  • Physical Description
      1 sheet  The ink used by Hugo has partly destroyed the paper.

Scope and Content

Autograph letter to a poet who was absent from the banquet given in Brussels in Hugo's honour after the publication of Les Misérables. Hugo declares that the poet was present in spirit, if not in the flesh, and gives warm praises of his noble pages.

Bought from Loliée on 7 May 1964 for 100 francs.