Mirbeau wants copies of his Journal d'une femme de chambre
Mirbeau wants copies of his Journal d'une femme de chambre
Note from Octave Mirbeau, addressed to his friend and editor at Fasquelle, Émile Darce. He asks for copies of his last two books: The Diary of a Maid (1900) and The 21 days of a neurasthenic (1901).
“[…] Will you send me two Maids, three neurasthenics, not in the first edition. THANKS. To you. Octave Mirbeau.
Ps I'm in a trance. Complications returned in my wife's condition. Tomorrow, a surgeon from Paris is coming to perform an operation.. I would like to be several weeks old”.
Mirbeau autographed a copy of the Diary of a Maid, to Émile Darce (EO, one of the 200 copies reimposed on Arches vellum).
Black ink on letter-card paper with printed first page, postmarks and autograph address.
Octave Mirbeau (Trévieres, 1848/1917)
Writer, author of Jardin des supplices (1898) and Diary of a chambermaid (1900).