Victor Hugo - Lettre autographe signée - Remerciements depuis Hauteville House + Photographie et CDV de John Ruskin - 1865

Autograph letter signed by Victor Hugo, poet, playwright and indispensable figure of French literature. The letter is dated 3 July without a year.

Written in black ink on blue-tinged laid paper.

In this letter, Victor Hugo thanks his correspondence for sending a collection of poems, which he deems curious and interesting, and presents his homage.

"3 July
Here, Madam, is the very curious and very interesting collection of [poems], and I thank you for your gracious favor, and I place all my homage at your feet.."

The back of the letter bears a mounted photographic portrait of John Ruskin accompanied by a visiting card reading "Professor Ruskin. C.C.C. Oxford. Brantwood, Coniston."

Dimensions: 11.9 x 19.1 cm
Condition: Letter: Fragile paper, tears along the central fold and margins, with small losses of paper not affecting the text. Photograph and CDV: pronounced mounting traces on the stiff paper support, photograph and visiting card well preserved. See photos for details.
Number of pages: 1 page

Carefully packed in a rigid and waterproof package.

- Victor Hugo, born 7 ventôse an X in Besançon and died 22 May 1885 in Paris, is a poet, playwright, novelist and draftsman associated with Romanticism. He is regarded as one of the most important writers of the French language and world literature. Wikipedia

- John Ruskin, born 8 February 1819 in Bloomsbury, London, died 20 January 1900 in Coniston, is an English writer, poet, painter and art critic. The only child of a wealthy family, he was educated at home, with a particular emphasis on art and religion. Wikipedia