Elme CARO (1826-1887). 10 L.A.S., 1857-1882 and s.d., to various correspondents; 20pages in-8 or in-12 (one letter repaired), one envelope. To Émile Deschamps, the Countess de Goyon, a director, etc. A long letter from 1857 concerns the philosophy of Jules Simon and the work of Hippolyte Rigault, L'Histoire de la querelle des anciens et des modernes, which had just received a prize from the Institut: "I put philosophy and disinterested literature outside the parties. Am I wrong? Besides, I've never let you ignore the nuances of my philosophical convictions. Have they changed? It's all there"...