Search Results: Authors starting with L from Le Manuscrit Français

LISZT, Franz (1811-1886)
Original photograph by Julien Ganz
Period albumen print (1882), cabinet format (14,5 x 10,5 cm)
Mounted on thick cardboard in the photographer's credit (16,5 x 10,8 cm)
Dark red edge all around
"Liszt" annotation on back side from an unknown hand
Striking and unpublished portrait of the musician


Several variants taken on the same day are known. However, none of them show Liszt staring at the lens. His portrait is all the more intense here.
Some traces of an old assembly mounting on margins, small scratches, and small accidents at the lower corners of the cardboard (see scans), otherwise good condition.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Autograph letter signed " Robert Louis Stevenson " to Hubert Smith-StainerEdinburgh, [Pitlochry, 6th June 1881], 3 pp. in-8°With autograph envelope
Long and beautiful Stevenson letter, from his native lands, evoking his difficult camps in California and the Cevennes
" Dear Sir,I received only a few days ago your long and interesting letter.I shall make it a point to see your book. I have since camped out in California, where things are mightily simplified by the absence of rain, but made more difficult by the rivers drying up. I recal some miseries after water to drink; and tracking with a compass through thick chapparal and chemise, did not always prove either easy or agreeable. But I was laid down with a fever, and passed some very melancholy nights, when I could not close an eye and could not tell whether I most disliked the glitter of the stars or the piercing cry of the crickets; and to have to cook one's food became quite impossible. That fever was the… Read More