José-Maria de HEREDIA (1842-1905). L.A.S., December 27, 1883, [to Maurice Bouchor]; 2pages in-8 in purple ink. "Your Aurore is not a volume of verse, it is a true book of the noblest inspiration and which by turns painful, grandiose, desperate and tender, gives me the feeling of the harmonious whole of a Passion symphony worthy of those old masters you sing in magnificent sonnets. I admire, as I should, believe it, the marvelous poetic gift with which you play, with such ease, with all the difficulties of the sonnet and the third rhyme. You're a good worker and a true poet. You love the sun and the incomparable rhymer, Dante. [...] These two loves are common to us"...