Lot n° 315
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12000 - 15000
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: 26 000EUR
BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)
7 autograph letters signed to his mother, Madame AUPICK :
Autograph letter signed to his mother. 18 November 1853. 2 pages in-8 in ink.
. "I beg you, do not write me sentences like this one: "In truth
Charles, I am sorry for you or else... when one is a man of order, one always has at home enough money to pay for these things" ...
Refuse me or send me the money" ...
Autograph letter signed to his mother, June 6, 1856. 2 pages in-8 in red ink.
... "I suffer a lot from the bad mood I am going to cause you" ... You will please me to pay attention next Wednesday or Tuesday (for at present the newspapers appear in the evening) to a great serial about me in the newspaper Le Pays, made about a writer of high distinction.
It will no doubt please you to see honourable lines for me.
This rarely happens" ...
Autograph letter signed to his mother. [Paris] Friday, March 5 [1858], [morning], 5 pages in-8 in ink, letter relating in part to the notary Ancelle, friend and moral support of Caroline Aupick, Baudelaire's mother.
"But really, my dear mother, it is none of my business. That these gentlemen saw each other is possible, and even probable, but it is none of my business, I, who have closed my door to Ancelle, I, who refuse to go to his house, I, who finally avoid him so as not to be obliged to tell him what I think of his conduct.
I told you that the 2,000 francs he received came from me, from my money, from my own money, from the Moniteur, from anywhere except Ancelle.
He has never, never advanced anything; you know very well that I never suffer him to put his nose into my business."
Autograph letter signed to his mother, to Madame Aupick, [Paris], Monday evening, July 4 [1859], 1 page in-8 and one leaf with address.
"I do not know [what] style to take in truth. I, a martyr, have no right to complain.
I am so terribly unhappy that if I still consent to live, it is for some deep reason that you do not know.
To what traffic have I condemned you? Your Becker is probably a thief, a former usurer, a print dealer, a buyer of old debts, who could never have been one of your suppliers.
"I work at random on inn tables. I shall not return to
Honfleur until the 10th or 15th, after I have solved the question of the Drama. But what do you care? What do you care? Come, I embrace you all the same."
- Autograph letter signed to mother, to Madame Aupick, [Paris, April 3, 1861], 2 pages in-12 and leaflet with address and stamp.
"Here is a stupid article: always morality. What is the use of my having so often explained in my books that morality is foreign to beauty?
Here is the Wagner. Send it back to me as soon as you have finished. There are some corrections, as you can see. It must be published again immediately in book form, with a supplement. But this supplement has not been done. And they want it today.
Your letter requires a long answer. It has distressed me. I assure you that I am lost, absolutely lost. Assuming I live, I see a long prospect of years, without pleasure, without rest, and without work."
Autograph letter signed to his mother, to Madame Aupick, [Paris, May 27, 1861], 3 pages in-8 square in ink.
"I have many visits to make, all of them interested, receipts to take everywhere, oppositions and seizures to be lifted, in order to be able to collect the price of my articles in Honfleur successively. Finally, I have a lot of luggage to send, which you will acknowledge to me. - The luggage must be very well done. I know from experience that the friction of travel spoils everything, books, engravings and drawings." "When I felt that I was going, through your help, to receive a great relief, as I was passing a chinoiserie shop, I bought for you two small trays to serve tea or coffee.
You don't tell me anything about it. It was the least I could do to thank you in my own way. They must have arrived postage paid.
Since your nerves and your stomach depend, like mine, on your rest and the pleasure or displeasure of living, I tell you that if it depends on me, you'll digest it well.
I'm always worried about the boxes I've left in my room or in my study. Either for my father's drawings or for others, I fear dampness."
Autograph letter signed to my dear Mama, to Madame Aupick, [Paris,] June 21, 1861. 2 pages in-8 in ink.
"I forgot to answer your excellent letter, the last one, so excellent at once and so laughable. Only mothers have the singular privilege of making people laugh even while inspiring respect and gratitude.
I am referring to the letter in which you explain to me that one should never put off until tomorrow what is in a hurry, and that all accuracy is rewarded.
What touches me is your request for a letter from you.
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