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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
On completing The Song of Triumphant Love. 1881
Autograph letter signed ('Ivan Tourguéneff') to [Juliette] Adam, Office of La nouvelle revue, 23 boulevard Poissonière, Paris, 6 May 1881.

In French. One page, 133 x 211mm, on paper with printed heading of La nouvelle revue.

On completing his novella The Song of Triumphant Love for publication. 'I cannot at the moment give you the manuscript of the "Song of Triumphant Love" – but it is indeed yours –; and as soon as I am back I will give it to you completed – to be inserted in the Nouvelle revue – on 15 July 1881'.

Juliette Adam (1836-1936) was the founding editor of La nouvelle revue.
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