Charles BAUDELAIRE. L.A.S. "Charles", [Brussels]... - Lot 109 - Ader

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Charles BAUDELAIRE. L.A.S. "Charles", [Brussels]... - Lot 109 - Ader
Charles BAUDELAIRE. L.A.S. "Charles", [Brussels] Tuesday, March 20 [1866], to his mother; 1 page in-8. Moving letter, the last one written in Baudelaire's hand. [Around March 15, Baudelaire had a fall in Namur in the church of Saint-Loup. Serious cerebral disorders occur, and the poet is brought back to Brussels, where his condition will quickly worsen until paralysis. It seems, according to this letter, that Baudelaire wanted to hide this accident from his mother]. "My dear mother, I am neither well nor ill. I work and write with difficulty. I will explain to you why. For I have been meaning to write to you for a long time, and I think that tonight or tomorrow morning I will answer you, regarding everything you ask me. It is necessarily that I postpone my trip to Paris. But I will do it, because it is absolutely necessary. - From now on I will not stay so long without writing to you. Poor dear little mother, it is I who have caused you to be worried! (with one t). Spelling has varied so often in France, that you can well, moreover, allow yourself a few little oddities, like Napoleon and Lamartine"... He will send him Victor Hugo's Les Travailleurs de la Mer. On the back, a page of illegible scribbles: desperate attempts drawn by a hand won by paralysis? Correspondence (Pléiade), t. II, p. 628. Former collections of Armand Godoy (1982, n° 212); then Daniel Sickles (XII, 4682).
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