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SAND George (Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevant, known as) [Paris, 1804 - Nohant, 1876], French novelist French novelist. Autograph letter signed. Nohant September 17, 1854; 3 pages in-8°, damaged and torn (to restore). "I have seen Monsieur Muroine, and have given him various reasons for my refusal, as to the the autographed authorization that you do me the honor of asking me. I did not give him the I did not give him the main one and I only want to give it to you. I don't want to write in a ladies' journal. It is too It is too narrow a scope. A monthly journal has only fragmented news, therefore very short, and I am and I am very awkward at this kind of work. Advice to the youth, it is besides very pleasant to give; but when you don't bring in the priest and the opinion, two things I'm not But when the priest and the opinion are not involved, two things I am not used to dealing with, this advice is not accepted by the great number of families. However, if my name and my promise are considered by you as useful to your enterprise, all my sympathies for one of the most charming writers of this time, would engage me to offer them to you with alacrity, although I have the weakness of being very stingy. But in this case it is a service to to you, and do I have to tell you that I hesitate to believe that you will be a little grateful to me? The soap opera of the century which you direct is systematically hostile to me, not only as a critic, which is its right, but but personally and with the intention of bringing down my plays, by announcing at the beginning of a of a series of sixty performances, that soon, in a few days, there will be no more question of it. This are bad procedures unworthy of a serious critic and a serious newspaper. In the care that this same sheet takes care to declare that, if all my plays are pitiful, my novels are novels are superb, I cannot now see a reparation, and the public which sees my name and my works in this works in this same sheet, is not fooled by this impartiality which explains the interest of the newspaper. Here is my complaint, Sir, I formulate it to you with frankness and without bitterness."
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SAND George (Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevant, known as) [Paris, 1804 - Nohant, 1876], French novelist French novelist. Autograph letter signed. Nohant September 17, 1854; 3 pages in-8°, damaged and torn (to restore). "I have seen Monsieur Muroine, and have given him various reasons for my refusal, as to the the autographed authorization that you do me the honor of asking me. I did not give him the I did not give him the main one and I only want to give it to you. I don't want to write in a ladies' journal. It is too It is too narrow a scope. A monthly journal has only fragmented news, therefore very short, and I am and I am very awkward at this kind of work. Advice to the youth, it is besides very pleasant to give; but when you don't bring in the priest and the opinion, two things I'm not But when the priest and the opinion are not involved, two things I am not used to dealing with, this advice is not accepted by the great number of families. However, if my name and my promise are considered by you as useful to your enterprise, all my sympathies for one of the most charming writers of this time, would engage me to offer them to you with alacrity, although I have the weakness of being very stingy. But in this case it is a service to to you, and do I have to tell you that I hesitate to believe that you will be a little grateful to me? The soap opera of the century which you direct is systematically hostile to me, not only as a critic, which is its right, but but personally and with the intention of bringing down my plays, by announcing at the beginning of a of a series of sixty performances, that soon, in a few days, there will be no more question of it. This are bad procedures unworthy of a serious critic and a serious newspaper. In the care that this same sheet takes care to declare that, if all my plays are pitiful, my novels are novels are superb, I cannot now see a reparation, and the public which sees my name and my works in this works in this same sheet, is not fooled by this impartiality which explains the interest of the newspaper. Here is my complaint, Sir, I formulate it to you with frankness and without bitterness."
