George SAND. Autograph manuscript, Paris, September 26, 1869; 2 pages in-4 on one double-sided sheet (small crack repaired to gummed paper). A curious and eccentric text, akin to automatic writing. Edmond Plauchut (1824-1909), a friend of Sand and a familiar figure in Nohant, wrote a note a.s. at the head of this text: "This insane page was written in front of me by Mrs. Sand. She had just been recommended a new pen and she tried it out by writing the following - without interruption". Sand filled in the two pages of the sheet in brown ink. The princess met her page eating a clove of garlic on the threshold of the palace of her ancestors, who said to her with a mocking air, "The weather is fine for the season; by Jove," exclaimed the hermit of the Sierra, "we have ordered it especially for the occasion and we hope that the duchess will have her umbrella [......] at the end of these memorable objurgations the hermit of the desert exhaled in a melodious sigh his tender and suave soul and the page of the Andalusian lord believed that he had to stab the princess under the eyes of the first cameraman so that the news was carried to the four corners of the world by the fifes and the drums of the invading army... And Sand, probably tired of this exercise, left the last sentence unfinished: "One saw however on the evening of the following week a bright auro".