226 - HUGO (Victor).

HUGO (Victor). Letter from the Author (L.A.S.) "Victor Hugo," "Hauteville House," Guernsey], June 15 [no year], 2 pp. in-8 on light blue paper, addressed to Mr. (Léon or Gaston) Bérardi, editor-in-chief of the Brussels daily L’Indépendance belge (small tear at the corner with minor loss of text): "Dear Sir, Please act as my intermediary and tell your charming colleague Mané how much his letter of June 6 moved and delighted me. Yes, let us wage this noble war; let us go everywhere and always to the aid of the weak, the downtrodden, and the oppressed. I am happy to have inspired your contributor’s eloquent pages; I would be proud to sign them. Please tell him so, and offer all the best my heart has to give to that steadfast and inspiring spirit. The bathing season is upon us; the sea is [superb?], the sun [?] is splendid, the [air?] is caressing, the water is sweet, though bitter; all this to tell you that Guernsey—its town, its harbor, its [?], its sand, its rock, and its outcast—lies at Madame Berardi’s feet. [...]