Letter from Jules Verne with its envelope to the Birmingham Daily Mail office. Letter on squared paper, folded in four, size 13.4 x 19.9 cm (not folded), dated May 5, 1887. Envelope size 11.3 x 7.2 cm with postage stamps ("Amiens/6 mai/Somme") and surcharge ("T" + the number "5" for the amount of tax) and with name and address of the addressee: "M. H. Jennings (?)/Daily Mail Office/Birmingham/England". "Amiens, 5 mai 87/Monsieur,/I have hardly been able to read your magazine at the address you have given me. I hope, however, that this little note will reach you and that you will receive the assurance of my full consideration/Jules Verne" This reply from the author of Extraordinary Journeys to Mr. H. Jennings is a little cryptic, but one can imagine that the addressee had transmitted the references of a review from which Jules Verne could draw information for one of his novels. Perhaps Nord contre Sud, currently being published in the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation... Moreover, it is amusing to note that Jules Verne had forgotten to put a stamp on the envelope, obliging Mr. Jennings to pay a tax of 5 pennies!