Émile ZOLA (1840-1902). L.A.S. and autograph note, June 5, 1896, [to his publisher Georges Charpentier]; 2pages in-12. Purchase of books for his mistress Jeanne Rozerot. Zola asks his friend to arrange for the books listed here to be purchased and "sent by parcel post to Madame Rozerot, rue de Bazincourt, Verneuil (Seine-et-Oise). And you will put it all on my account"... The list in pencil is attached: D'Annunzio's L'Enfant de volupté and L'Intrus; Adolphe Belot's Le Drame de la rue de la Paix; Pierre Loti's Le Roman d'un enfant, Le Mariage de Loti and Mon frère Yves; Mérimée's Colomba; Octave Feuillet's Histoire de Sibylle and Le Divorce de Juliette ; L'Abbé Constantin by Ludovic Halévy; L'Étui de nacre by Anatole France; Au bord du désert by Jean Aicard; Le Lendemain des amours by Georges Ohnet; Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant; and La Comtesse de Salisbury by Alexandre Dumas.