Alphonse de Lamartine | 3 autograph letters and 3 fragments from the working manuscript of a speech, 1844-49

Lamartine, Alphonse de

Three autograph letters signed ("Lamartine"), and three autograph fragments from the working manuscript of a speech, [Paris, 1844-1849]

i) in French, thanking a friend for a copy of his newspaper and sending a proof of an article entitled "Pourquoi M de Lamartine est seul", referring to a speech against a tax on dogs, and telling him in confidence that he has sold Les Girardins, 2 pages, 8vo [c. June 1848],

ii) issuing an invitation to a friend recently returned from the tropics, 1 page, 8vo, autograph address-panel to verso, dated at the head of the page "1844"

iii) to a friend, telling him that he is leaving the Ministry and inviting him to lunch at 11 o'clock that very morning, as he has some good news to impart ("...Venez déjeuner avec moi a 11 heures ce matin..."), 1 page, 8vo, no date.

iv) Three autograph fragments (two apparently contiguous) from the working manuscript of a speech attacking Louis Napoléon, in which Lamartine points out the dangers to the Republic of purging differences of opinion, falling back on anachronisms, and imposing dictatorship at a time when liberty and law are required, with several deletions, alterations and corrections, 3 strips from a folio leaf (or leaves), versos blank, one paginated "11" at the top corner, [1849]

PROVENANCE:

First two items: Sotheby's 8 December 1999 (Pencarrow collection), lot 158.