CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. - Lot 2

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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. - Lot 2
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. L.A.S., dated February 1, 1864. Small folded in-4, 2 ff. fine handwriting legible in brown ink, ca. 21 lines per page. Supplement addressed to Michel Levy, the first publisher in 1864 of Poe's Histoires grotesques et sérieuses translated by Baudelaire. Sorrowful, begging letter: 3 years before his death, Baudelaire was still looking for money "... I am in a serious situation...". Handwritten mention by Baudelaire in fine of the success of translations of Poe's short stories... Michel Levy (1821-1875) was the founder of the Levy frères publishing house and later Calmann-Levy, publisher of Baudelaire and his translations of Poe. Accompanied by a CDV from the "Présidence de la République", signed, author unidentified, modern penmanship, dated "June 28" (ca. 1980) and referring to the said letter from Charles Baudelaire.
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