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BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL; LORD. Clipped portion of an
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, including only one sentence: “A stray review and an
occasional newspaper furnish me with the most part of my intelligence.” On the verso is
written about a dozen illegible words, probably in his hand, that have been crossed out.
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x8 inches; folds.
Np, nd
[400/600]
WRITING TO A P.O.W. IN 1942
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CAMUS, ALBERT. Autograph Postcard Signed, twice (“A Camus” and “Albert
Camus”), to prisoner of war Charles Autrand, in French, in pencil, on a German prisoner
of war postcard, expressing sympathy. Signed in the closing and in the return address verso.
1 page, oblong 12mo; minor scattered soiling.
Mazet-Saint-Voy, July[?] 1942 [from postmark]
[1,500/2,500]
“
. . . I sometimes read news from you in the
Cahiers
and in
Poesie 42
. . . . I do not have
much to say: all the experience is on your side . . . . [W]e suffer humiliations but we have free-
dom of movement: you now know that this is inestimable . . . .”
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