Alphonse de LAMARTINE. L.A.S., March 28, 1860, to a colleague; 3 pages in-8. Beautiful letter. He has received the 3rd volume of his work, the reading of which gave him great pleasure: "It is a letter of Cicero in eight hundred pages! [...] What I know by rereading this eloquent calendar of your public life, is that the nation never built a man of more virile, more universal and more powerful elements. Live long, write often, speak always; all by yourself, you will be a Corinthian brass among the monuments of our history"...