HUGO Victor Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885, poète... Lot n° 320

Autograph letter, signed "Victor Hugo", addressed to Eugène Pelletan. "Hauteville house July 6"; 1 page in-12, address. "Thank you, poet, thank you, thinker, for your good and admirable letter which my wife brought me back, as the messenger from prison to exile. You now have in your hands the end of the book, and you see, don't you, that you did well to give me credit for your sympathy, and that in short the crowning glory is the republic, not progress and socialisation with freedom! I feel my heart beating next to yours and I press your hands into mine. Victor Hugo."