Alexandre DUMAS fils (1824-1895). L.A.S., Boulogne-sur-mer, to a painter friend; 3 1/2 pages in-8 on blue paper. About sea bathing in Boulogne. With great humor, Dumas recounts the sea bathing in Boulogne, the English women who bathe without pants and whom he goes to spy by opening the windows of his cabin; the spectacle is all the more interesting because to avoid wetting their cabins, they undress before entering them after bathing. He advises his friend to come and make "adorable sketches, for I assure you that there are beautiful spectacles to be seen from the age of 13 and 14 [...] Woman is a beautiful animal in general, but when she is blond or redheaded, young, English and naked, with her hair sparse and emerging from the water, it is a treat worthy of the Gods"... Attached is a L.A.S. to a lady he will see on Thursday after the Académie (2p. in-12).