Alexandre DUMAS père (1802-1870). Autograph manuscript signed, Mr le Mis Afflitto Prefect of Naples, [January 1863]; 4 pages in-4 on blue paper. Chronicle, published in Italian in Dumas' Neapolitan newspaper L'Indipendente, January 7, 1863 (Il Sig. Marchese d'Afflitto Prefetto di Napoli). Usually a public official is attacked when he has given evidence of ill will, negligence or incapacity, but even before he had left Genoa, where he was Prefect, the Marquis d'Afflitto, the new Prefect of Naples, was attacked by the Neapolitan press. Not for the first time, the press rejected a non-Napolitan out of hand. "We don't have the honor of knowing Mr. Marquis d'Afflitto - we've never seen him and probably never will - but we feel it is our duty, and above all our conscience, to protest against premature attacks that nothing justifies, and that a lack of patriotism alone is directing. Let's see Mr. Marquis d'Afflitto at work"...