One of Dumas Fils’s earliest poetic works. Alexandre DUMAS Fils....

One of Dumas Fils’s earliest poetic works.
Alexandre DUMAS Fils. Signed autograph poem. May 1841.
4 quatrains on an in-8 leaf.
“Who could ever have said, save God alone, / That this young woman in her white gown, / Bowing before the altar from which happiness flows, / Would, a year later, wear her veil as a shroud /…”
Dated May 1841 (Alexandre was 17 at the time), it was published in the author’s *Péchés de jeunesse* with variations and dated May 1843.
Also included:
Alexandre DUMAS, Jr. Early Poems. Signed autograph manuscript. 5 pp. ½ in-8. Lamalou, September 21, 1793.
“To Monsieur [name crossed out], who knows as well as I do what to make of the person in question.
With one exception in the whole world / I affirm that there is no blonde / To whom you could be compared, / That no skin is as white as yours…”