Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. 8 L.A.S., 1 P.S. and a signed phot - Lot 4

Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. 8 L.A.S., 1 P.S. and a signed photograph, 1855-1871 and n.d.; all mounted on tabs in a small in-fol. half-maroquin with garnet corners (Canape). Interesting collection of letters and documents. Photograph (cdv format) by Ad. Braun & Cie, signed on the back in red ink. L.A.S. to Mme Prosper VIALLON at the Hôtel du Préau (1 p. in-8 in red ink, envelope with wax seal), Wednesday, after a missed appointment. 2 L.A.S. to Jean RAMBOSSON. - December 24, 1855 (3 p. in-8 on pink paper). He asks him, in Nicolardot's absence, to drop by his porter's house and forward the letters that have arrived at his home in La Bastide d'Armagnac via Roquefort (Landes): "This is where I have my headquarters, & where you can write to me". He would like to know if Rambosson succeeds in his plans, if he writes in Pitre Chevalier's journal. He advises him not to make any "near or distant allusion to my sister-in-law and my niece with whom you have sometimes met"; he will explain why. "I'm here in complete solitude, studying the landscapes of the country in soft, almost tepid weather - autumnal weather, even though it's winter. I work like a Benedictine, and all I miss from Paris is the pleasure - of ringing the bell with you"... - January 4, 1856 (2 p. in-8). Asks him to drop by Nicolardot's, who has "three volumes given to him for me in the country", which he needs most urgently... L.A.S. to M. ESCUDIER (1 p. in-8 in red ink, adr.), sending him an article: "Ne criez pas, ô Ingoulafre! - what I'm sending you is good! You'll get as much tonight, because now I'm on the slope and I'm going downhill! So you think all you have to do is Pst! Pst! to inspiration for it to come"... 3 L.A.S. to his friend Théophile SILVESTRE (3, 3 and 2 p. in-8). - Saint-Sauveur June 5 [1871]. His father has incurred such debts that Barbey and his brother must sell their "ancestral properties. Bitterness among all the other bitternesses of this cursed time!" He will later visit him in Cherbourg, "& to combine with you what we will be able to do to live in this society [...] I have seen all that could be seen during the siege, and what I have seen of the cowardly, the undisciplined, the drunkardly, the godless, but above all the beastly, only authorizes despair"... He salutes the "great painter Millet, the honor of this Normandy that I love a little more"... - Saint-Sauveur September 11, 1871. He visits him in Cherbourg... "... My father's big house has been sold, and I'm currently staying with my brother (not the abbé), unpleasantly occupied with settling interests [...] Paris is odious to me. I shall not return until the latest possible moment, and I shall leave it as soon as I can"... - Tuesday morning 12. He is "like a shuttlecock on two rackets", about his possible entry into the Constitutionnel, and his collaboration with the Nain jaune: "I am so happy to have this democratic journal, which does more for authoritarians like me than the Catholic and imperialist Pinard !!!!"... L.A.S. to a lady, Paris Saturday (2 p. in-8 with the motto Never more). He was unable to reply to her letter: "I was in conclave. I wasn't making a Pope, since, unfortunately, I'm not a cardinal, - but I was making an article, since, unfortunately, I'm a journalist Now, when I make an article, I'm bawled out like a cardinal, and even the letters that reach me, I don't read them"... P.S. with 2 autograph additions, [1859?] (1 p. in-4, tax stamp). Treaty with publisher Amyot for the publication of his works: Les Hommes et les œuvres, 4 volumes; and Les Bas-Bleus. An article by Charles Buet on Barbey d'Aurevilly, journaliste (La Chronique moderne, June 1889) is mounted at the top; and at the end, Paul Verlaine's article on Barbey d'Aurevilly in Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui (no. 282), illustrated with a portrait by Coll-Toc.