French Literature. Eight autograph letters etc George Sand, Dumas père, Scribe, Bernhardt, Zola and others

FRENCH LITERATURE
Eight autograph letters and notes by George Sand, Dumas père, Sarah Bernhardt, Zola and others, nineteenth-century

George Sand. Autograph note about Les vacances de Pandolphe, accompanying her text for the song "Embrassons-nous, Mignonne", which is ready to be set to music, 2 pages, 12mo, Paris, c.1852--Alexandre Dumas père. Autograph letter to his collaborator Petruccelli, about "notre Histoire des Bourbons", describing it as a patriotic work, 2 pages, 4to, 3 March, c.1862--Sarah Bernhardt. Autograph letter to Édouard Robert, signed ("Sarah"), 2 pages, 16mo, on printed stationery with her monogram, autograph envelope, postmarked 12 January 1878; together with items by Zola (inscribed visiting card), Eugène Scribe (to Pingard, requesting tickets) and Bourgault-Ducoudray (autograph musical quotation from Stabat mater and a letter, 8 December 1878), 8 items in all

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