MERIMÉE, Prosper (1803-1870). Set of 4 documents. - Lot 187

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MERIMÉE, Prosper (1803-1870). Set of 4 documents. - Lot 187
MERIMÉE, Prosper (1803-1870). Set of 4 documents. -L.A.S. [addressed to Buloz according to an apocryphal mention]. Cannes, n.d. "February 21". 1 p. in-8. Mérimée agrees to translate a story by Tourgueniev, only if his health allows it and if the Russian short story writer sees it again: "Tourguenef will have to see it again". Merimee and Turgenev corresponded frequently after their meeting in 1857 and it was to the author of Memoirs of a Hunter and First Love that Merimee wrote his last words on September 23, 1870. The Frenchman was one of the great translators of Russian literature of his century, from Gogol to Pushkin. -L.A.S. to Don Manuel de Bofarull et Palau. S.l., May 29, 1849. 2 pp. 1/2. in-8. Mérimée recommends one of his friends to the good care of his Spanish correspondent, asks the Carlist to open the doors of the royal archives and complains about the cholera epidemic that strikes France that year. -Beautiful drawing by Prosper Mérimée, in Indian ink, 26,7 x 19,4 cm. It represents his dog Brusca hanging from a scaffold, with the sign "IUSTAS LVIT POENAS". That year the Senate was considering the problem of stray dogs and rabies (session of May 6, 1865), twenty years before Pasteur's decisive discovery. -Publishing contract between Victor Magen and Prosper Mérimée, with autograph signatures of both parties. Paris, October 25, 1843, 1 p. large in-8. The contract foresees certain modalities for the publication of the Etudes sur l'Histoire romaine which will appear the following year.
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