SAND George (Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, known as) [Paris, 1804 - Nohant, 1876], French novelist. Correspondence: Autograph letter signed "Aurore", addressed to M. Caron. Nohant January 26, 1823; 2 pages in-8°, address and red wax seal representing a love and around the inscription " c'est de Nohant ". G. Sand had just been married in 1822. This Mr. Caron was a friend and the trusted man of Baron Dudevant who was in charge of the young household's errands. "I only received your letter three days ago, my dear little father, and your box only yesterday evening. This proves the accuracy of our road service. You do the commissions so well, dear father, that they will give you some from now on. That is what you will gain. I thank you a thousand times over for your extreme kindness, for the rare perfection with which you have understood me, and especially for the lovely sweets you are sending me. I don't know yet if I enjoy seeing them more than eating them. It is a question that I try to solve, by doing justice to it. Casimir, while being reasonable and calling me a little girl, steals them from me and forces me to hide them. [I did not know you were a hunter, my dear Caron, and I thought you were a man who slept in your room while the others ran around the fields to get you good dinners. But you say we killed, in such a convincing way that I give in to the evidence. At least tell me if you kill the partridges with a gun or with feathers? You promise me those of the pheasant and you seem to laugh at me". Casimir Dudevant ends the letter by speaking to him about his occupations and the regret of not being with his friends anymore. He worries about what is happening in Paris from a political point of view. Pen drawing of G. Sand on the steamer Ville d'Alger on May 12, 1841 (attributed to Peschiera). Autograph piece signed. July 20, 1841; 1 page in-4° oblong. She sells to Hippolyte Souverain three articles to be gathered in a collection of short stories entitled Le foyer de l'Opéra. Autograph letter signed to M. d'Arpentigny. Nohant, June 13, 1856; 4 pages in-8°. Very curious letter about her stay in Nohant and the society she agrees to admit. She begins by saying that she has no fortune and, alluding to Lamartine, that she does not want to arrive like certain celebrities to open a subscription to pay for the munificence of her hospitality. She tries to show that the sight of her interior is not worth the difficulties of a trip from Paris to Nohant. She advises M. d'Arpentigny to divert from her plans a lady who wanted to undertake this trip: "Tell her what disappointment would await her by seeing me in my interior. How little literature and the beautiful spirit are visible to the naked eye, finally that it is in my books that I put the bottom of my soul but that I do not think of showing it before years of intimacy, in the details of the life. " Autograph letter signed. Nohant, March 16, 1857; 1 page in-8°. "You know very well that an author does not edit himself, and that his work is always, as current exploitation, the property of a publisher. I do not have the right to give you the authorization that you desire, and if I asked for it, I am sure of a refusal ". Autograph letter signed. Nohant, March 14, 1871; 4 pages in-8°. In the middle of the Paris Commune: On the pensions of poor artists. A letter from Aurore Sand from 1949, an engraved portrait of G. Sand and press clippings are enclosed.