ALS in French, signed “G. Sand,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 4.75, January 24, 1872. A letter to a friend, in part (translated): "Here is my installment, and there will be yet another one dealing with the methods of learning how to read. It's silly, but it is useful and timely. I hope that my Flaubert will not misunderstand. It isn't art that I bring to this practical matter, and one is not always obliged to be 'arty.' Sometimes there are more important things to do, no matter what he says about it…Quinet's book comes suddenly to mind. Whenever he touches on Mankind, he becomes admirable again. I am taking him in small doses, but I am charmed and find that you were right in speaking so highly of him. You didn't exaggerate. It is a beautiful book…I'm writing to you at three in the morning, amidst the noise of thunder, the greenish light of the moon, clouded over by the storm, the trees bent and flattened by the gusts of wind. It's fantastically beautiful." In fine condition, with a thin strip of mounting remnant along the spine.
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