Hippolyte TAINE (1828-1893). 8 L.A.S., 1869-1879, to various people; 12 pages in-8 and in-12. Attached is a l.a.s. from Jules Favre, October 11, 1880. December 17 [1869] to the publisher Hachette. On the subject of his royalties for his Histoire de la littérature anglaise and for De l'Intelligence, the manuscript of which he brings with him, emphasizing the enormity of the work: "I have spent three years simply creating it, and the first draft goes back 15 years, without my ever having stopped thinking about it, and often working on it"... - March 14.I've written everything I had to say about La Fontaine and his fables. As for a preface, you could come to an agreement with MM. Hachette, if you would accept the one in my book"... - May 9, 1870, to Hillebrand, in the Journal des Débats. Congratulates him on his articles and asks him to lend him works on German literature: "I want to read thoroughly and learn as much as I can about the present and past of your Germany, so that I can go there and see it usefully with my own eyes"...- April 19 [1870]. He asked to be sent L'Intelligence, Essais critiques et d'histoire and Titus Livius. - Asks Coulman to send him "the two volumes of details on the circle of Rachel Varnhager d'Ense that he borrowed from the Library". - Bordeaux Friday, [to the Countess de Loynes]. Gallant letter in which he evokes the past: "I remember a certain evening in Passy, when a certain person [...] all white in her long muslins, with snow on her shoulders and pale diamonds in her eyes let a poor man who couldn't stand it chat for two hours, while the Prince and M. de Girardin talked politics in the garden. The poor man was paid, for the undulating form, the serpentine lines of the collar and waist in the long white muslins remained in his memory"... This is how he imagines her on his Arcachon terrace... - 1879, request for places at Henri Martin's academic reception. Attached is a l.a.s. from Jules Favre, October 11, 1880, asking M. Pingard for places at Taine's reception.