Three letters from Hippolyte Taine to Lefèvre-Pontalis (+ nine others from his wife)

Regarding appointments, Taine is still "deeply saddened and too grief-stricken" to leave his home. He apologizes to Madame Lefèvre Pontalis, remembers "Mr. Mortimer-Ternaux's sculptor," and mentions his classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and his sessions at the Academy. Taine expresses his delight at the prospect of being introduced to Baron de Layre [Mortimer-Ternaux's son-in-law] and plans to finish his work on the Revolution before the summer with the help of the latter's documents, etc. "The volume I will complete this summer only goes up to the fall of the Girondins, and Mr. Mortimer Terneaux's work covers the entire history of the Terror up to that date. But, for what follows, I would probably greatly benefit from consulting his notes. I have just checked his printed volumes; they are excellent in every respect; he is the only historian who is also a critic. I cite him very often, and I express my confidence in him in twenty places [...]".

We attach:

-a set of 9 autograph letters and cards signed by his wife, Mrs. Thérèse Taine, née Denuelle. Acknowledgments, Mr. Daumet's trip from the Academy of Fine Arts to Cairo, recommendations, the Society for the Relief of the Wounded in China, etc. 1895 to 1901. 23 pp. of various formats (letterhead of Boringe in Menthon Saint-Bernard or of 26 rue Hamelin in Paris).

-a letter signed Taine-Paul-Dubois (Geneviève Taine, daughter of Hippolyte, had married the economist Louis Paul-Dubois).