LAST LETTER BEFORE DYING - Gabriel FERRY (Louis de Bellemare - Lot 154

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LAST LETTER BEFORE DYING - Gabriel FERRY (Louis de Bellemare - Lot 154
LAST LETTER BEFORE DYING - Gabriel FERRY (Louis de Bellemare dit, Grenoble 1809-1852, author of adventure novels, he died at sea on January 3, 1852 in the fire of the ship "L'Amazone", while he was on his way to San-Francisco to follow the adventures of the gold diggers) / Impressive autograph letter signed "L. de Bellemare", probably one of his very last letters, written before he perished at sea: letter of 3 p in-8 dense, to a friend, from Southampton on January 1, 1852, the day before his fatal embarkation on "L'Amazone" [George Sand, who prefaced the posthumous republication of 1863 of his work "Les Révolutions du Mexique", cites another letter of Ferry of January 1, 1852 addressed to his son, and tells of his last heroic moments].
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