+ French English Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Adèle Hugo (1803-1868) Inkwell Box 1903. In 1860, for a charity sale intended for a nursery for poor children in Guernsey, Adèle Hugo asked Alphonse de Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, and her husband to give her their inkwell, their quill, and a handwritten note. Victor Hugo had a four-drawer box made to store them, then bought it a placed it on a Louis XIII table in the Blue Room at Hauteville House. In 1903, Paul Meurice had it fixed to the current table, decorated with four chimeras
A very cool item in Victor Hugo’s Paris house: an ink and pen holder with ink and quills from from #VictorHugo, #AlexanderDumas, Lamartine, and #GeorgeSand, collected by Hugo’s wife for a charity sale, accompanied by hand-signed notes from each #author.
