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9 - [DELACROIX (Eugène)]. — FORGET (Joséphine de). Autograph letter signed “To Eugène Delacroix.” No place, “this Monday evening,” August 5, 1839, according to the postmark dated the following day, August 6. 3/4 p. in-12, address on the back, wax seal intact, tear in the address page caused by opening the envelope but not affecting the text.

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€300 - 400

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[DELACROIX (Eugène)]. — FORGET (Joséphine de). Autograph letter signed “To Eugène Delacroix.” No place, “this Monday evening,” August 5, 1839, according to the postmark dated the following day, August 6. 3/4 p. in-12, address on the back, wax seal intact, tear in the address page caused by opening the envelope but not affecting the text. “We’ll be going tomorrow, Tuesday, to the Français [the Comédie-Française]; there will be a lovely performance, for which your friend will foot the bill. Come join us early, and I hope we can spend our evening very close to one another. HOW HAPPY I WAS LAST NIGHT, MY POOR FRIEND; MY HEART IS FILLED WITH THIS HAPPINESS, WHICH I PREFER TO ALL THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD. A thousand and a thousand tender thoughts. See you tomorrow, all to you... ” On Joséphine de Forget, see No. 8 above.

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Books & Manuscripts
Tuesday, November 24
02:00 PM
66, avenue de Breteuil
75007 Paris, France

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