Finding Aid for the Charles Baudelaire Letters.
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Descriptive Summary:
The collection contains a note acknowledging receipt of 110 francs from Monsieurs Gide and Crepet; five brief letters to Monsieur Laumonier about his translations of Poe's tales; a brief letter to Mario Uchard. Charles Baudelaire is widely regarded as one of the best French poets of the 19th century; he also wrote art criticism and translated the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Extent:
0 cubic feet plus 8 items
Date Span:
1859-1863
Scope and Content:
The collection contains a note acknowledging receipt of 110 francs from Monsieurs Gide and Crepet; five brief letters to Monsieur Laumonier about his translations of Poe's tales; a brief letter to Mario Uchard in which Poe's Marie Rogêt is mentioned; and a manuscript leaf in which Baudelaire bemoans A. Stoepel's request that he reduce the 800 lines of Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" to 300 lines in French.
Restrictions:
Unrestricted access.
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