French writer and salonnière (1813-1894). Autograph letter signed. No place. 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. Mounted on larger backing paper.
$ 389 / 350 €
(92307/BN61353)
To the novelist Jean Middlemass with high praise for "A Girl in a Thousand", published the preceding year: "That 'Girl' of yours is a very remarkable book and I must have a talk with you about it. I don't think I ever saw a better photograph of the juxtaposition of classes in England, it is all living [...]". - With only few ink smudges.