Alexandre Dumas announces his arrival in Naples to meet Garibaldi. 1860.

Alexandre Dumas (1802.1870)

Autographed letter signed.

One page in-8°.

Slnd [September 1860]

"I kiss you, you rascal, and I love you." 

The father of the Three Musketeers announces his arrival in Naples alongside Garibaldi.

________________________________________________________

"My dear friend, if you continue to write to me so often, as I don't want to miss a single one of your letters, please address them to me from now on in Naples, where I will be in two days, God willing, and where I will rest as you advise me to do, without sleeping, and as you are doing this year. I kiss you, you rascal, and I love you. A. Dumas. Palazzo Chiatamone – Naples. There's my address – you never know what might happen."

________________________________________________________

In 1860, Alexandre Dumas joined Giuseppe Garibaldi's cause for the unification of Italy. After Garibaldi's triumphant entry into Naples, the writer was appointed to the honorary position of director of museums and archaeological excavations. Dumas remained in Naples until 1864.