Victor HUGO. Autograph poem, [Lueur à l'horizon, 1854]; 1 page in-8 (lined on the back with fine japon paper). Attached is a L.A.S. from his wife Adèle Hugo, December 22, to a lady, for a children's party (1 p. ½ in-8). First draft of this poem collected in Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit. Lueur à l'horizon is dated in the edition "Jersey 18 mars 1854"; the poem will be collected in 1881 in Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit, pièce XXII du "Livre lyrique". La Destinée. This draft gives an early version of the first six quatrains, with alternative variants. "I dream/songe, une lueur/clair rayon luit sur le flot sonore, The lighthouse says it's dawn and blows its torch I'd like to know the things I don't know [...] What's the point? The sailor looks at the deep water, And whistles as he raises his anchor and flies away Let the sea rumble and the ocean roar Let the man whistle". Attached is a L.A.S. from his wife Adèle Hugo, December 22, to a lady, for a children's party (1 p. ½ in-8).