Victor HUGO (1802-1885). L.A.S., Paris June 15,...

Victor HUGO (1802-1885). L.A.S., Paris June 15, 1848, to Baron TAYLOR; 2 pages in-8, address.
About the financing of his electoral campaign [Hugo has just been elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly after the Revolution of 1848].
"Dear friend, you remember that I made a commitment to my constituents never to spend money personally for elections in order to avoid the reproaches so rightly addressed to English elections. I have kept this pledge and I will keep it scrupulously. However, I cannot help but think of the expenses incurred for my election, posters, printed matter, etc. by the associations of which you are the so honorable president. Without contributing to them, since my commitment is opposed to it, allow me to offer as a donation to the coffers of these associations the sum of five hundred francs", which he charges Taylor to distribute equitably among them, with his warm thanks...