ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. Handwritten letter to the lawyer Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, in full (translated): “If you deem it good, my honorable and dear friend, and if you do not send me a countermanding order, I shall be at your place Thursday and 1 p.m. Please trust that I am yours from the bottom of my heart.” The reverse panel is addressed in Hugo's own hand. In fine condition.
The recipient of this letter, the lawyer Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, had published in 1829 one of the few positive reviews of Hugo’s ‘Last Day of a Condemned Man,’ the writer’s well-known early plea against the death penalty. In 1869-1870, Duvergier briefly served as Minister of Justice in the government of Napoléon III, while Hugo lived in exile.
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