Paul VERLAINE (1844-1896). Autograph poem signed, to Monsieur le Docteur Chauffart, 1890; half-page in-8. This sonnet, one of the most beautiful in the collection Dédicaces (1890), is dated here: "Paris hôpl Broussais, 9bre 90". There are two small erasures and a few variations from the printed text. Dr. Chauffart was a physician at the Broussais hospital. "The poet is parbleu not what one thinks. He only has when he wants all kinds of ignorance, Without too much bitterness or rancid prejudice, And sometimes he even feels deep and judges straight"...