HEREDIA José-Maria de (1842-1905).

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HEREDIA José-Maria de (1842-1905).
L.A.S. "J.M. de H", [Paris February 13, 1893], to Philippe GILLE; 2 pages in-4 in violet ink, envelope. Long autobiographical letter about his origins, his work and Les Trophées. He recommends the studies of Jules Lemaître and Anatole France, and brings some precisions and recommendations: "By my father, I descend from the Conquistador Pedro de Heredia who founded the city of Cartagena de Indias in 1532. I addressed him some sonnets in the Conquerors Series such as The Ancestor, To a Founder of a City, or even to a dead city. [...] Don't insist on the family illustration side. I don't care about it at all. You will see in the note from France my relations with LECONTE DE LISLE. I knew Théophile GAUTIER a lot in the last years of his life", he quotes, adding: "Those who knew the Great Theo will recognize there the gift of the speech, the cadence, the unfolding of the sentence and almost the sound of the voice"... He collaborated with the Revue des Deux Mondes, but never refused verses to young magazines, "and I always received the young poets in a friendly way, which explains the deference they always showed me [...] of which I am very proud". As for the Trophies, "it is a kind of small Legend of the Centuries. The great poems at the end represent heroic Spain and America. I am the first Spaniard (mixed with Norman) who made a similar work in French"... A visiting card to the same, with 2 autographed lines, is attached.
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