VIGNY Alfred de (1797-1863). Autograph manuscript, Academy, and L.A.S. "Alfred de Vigny"; half page large in-fol. and 3 pages in-8. Draft of a note for the Journal d'un poète. "If I had to look somewhere for an obvious mark of the progress of Civilization, I would place it in the ever-increasing grandeur of the rank held by the man of letters. First rapsode, then trouvère and entertainer of people, then vassal and servant of the great, then finally free and today master. Yes sovereign master of the societies ". May 28, 1857, to a poet whose work was selected "among 149 other Poems"; it is thus part of the eight poems among which "the Academy will choose the one that, alone, must receive a prize that is never shared and has no accessit" An autograph note on an envelope about Lamartine in 1863 about a "Lithographed letter. Sort of circular from Lamartine dated April 8 - for a loan. [] This circular uses a cunning language pretending to answer to imaginary offers of service".