ALS in French, signed “V. H.,” one page, 4 x 5.5, black-bordered mourning stationery, September 12, [1868]. Letter written from Brussels, in full (translated): "I have not received l’Impartialde l’Est, but dear and friendly colleague, if I could be comforted, I would be it by all the evidences of cordial emotion which are given to me. Your heart is close to mine. You and your friends you give a helping hand to me in my inexpressible mourning. I am the outcast of all the proscriptions. Death also is an exile. Alas!" In fine condition. Victor Hugo’s wife, Adele Foucher, died in August 27, 1868. Hugo, banished from France, was unable to attend her funeral in Villequier, where she was interred with their daughter Leopoldine.
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