ANTICIPATION - Salomon REINACH (1858-1932, archaeologist and - Lot 279

ANTICIPATION - Salomon REINACH (1858-1932, archaeologist and historian) / Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-8, to a friend whom he encouraged to write down his memories of Mérimée, "Just think how precious, around the year 2000, your memories of Claude Bernard, Mérimée, Caro, Halévy and so many others you haven't yet told me about would be. You'd give it to me in a sealed envelope that would go straight, without your name, to the Bibliothèque Nationale, with a warning not to open it before 1950 or 2000. At that time, there will be more educated people than there are today; everyone will know how to read, will read with joy, not novels but memoirs and history; gone, you will still make people happy".