Autograph letter to Hugo passing on a request by the son of Lafon, a former Assemblée colleague of Hugo, and Joigneaux, for a letter of recommendation in favour of an American poet who admires Hugo both as a poet and as a Republican and whose father had rendered good service to Republicanism.
Written at Dinant, Belgium.
Joigneaux was a journalist, writing for the Corsaire and Le Charivari, and a radical Republican. He was elected deputy in 1848, but had to go into exile in Belgium after Louis Bonaparte's coup. He returned to France in 1859. He regained a seat in the Assembly of 1871, which he retained until 1889, and was elected senator in 1891.