MISCELLANEOUS. 25 letters, most of them L.A.S. Jean Aicard, Adolphe Asseline (to Alex. Dumas, request for seats for the first performance of Ruy Blas; a few lines a.s. from Dumas who forwards to V. Hugo), Maurice Bouchor, Jules Claretie (5), Alphonse and Julia Daudet, Alexandre Desrousseaux (1888, on his songs, to A. Pougin), Félix Fénéon, René-Marie Hermant, Marie Krysinska (poem on Mariani wine), Paul de Perceva, Henri de Régnier, Jean Richepin (3), Victorien Sardou, Aurélien Scholl, Albert Soubies, Laurent Tailhade, Louis Viardot, etc.

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