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HUGO (Victor), 1802–1885. Letter from the author, “Victor Hugo,” Hauteville House (Guernsey), April 28, 1864, 1 p. in-8, to Mr. (Léon or Gaston) Bérardi, editor of the Brussels daily newspaper *L'Indépendance belge*: “Dear Mr. Berardi, I have replied to your charming letter [...] Here are two letters that you may find worth publishing. I ask Madame Berardi to protect Shakespeare and Victor Hugo—one supporting the other—with her sweetest smile. Yours ‘ex intimo’.” A charming letter written a few days after the publication of his essay *William Shakespeare*, published to mark the 300th anniversary of the playwright’s birth.
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