Jules VERNE is worried about his “Around the world in 80 days”.

Jules Verne (1828.1905)

Autograph letter signed to the playwright Adolphe d'Ennery.

One page in-12°. Alger. June 28, 1878

“I saw from a few newspapers that the resumption of the World Tour had been good. »

Precious letter from Verne expressing concern, during his Mediterranean trip, about the theatrical adaptations of two of his masterpieces, Captain Grant's Children and Around the World in 80 Days .

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“My dear master, A little word to tell you that I will return to Paris around July 5, after having seen Vigo, Lisbon, Tangier, Ceuta, Tetouan, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malaga, Oran, Algiers. I really hope that you will have provided, or rather overcome, the last difficulties of my children Grant , and that the thing will finally be on its feet. And really, I am very happy about it.

I saw from a few newspapers that the resumption of the World Tour had been good. So everything is fine. I have 40 degrees of heat. Tell Madame Desgranges that it is a cooked man who is serving her hand, and again with caution because it will leave her fingers with burns. Which country ! Yours sincerely. Jules Verne. »

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In the summer of 1878, Jules Verne sailed on his steam yacht, the Saint-Michel III, across the Mediterranean.

The theatrical collaboration between Verne and d'Ennery was difficult. Indeed, the novelist hated the vulgar character of his collaborator's mistress, Clémence Desgranges, whose presence he had to endure during long stays at their home at Cap d'Antibes. Nevertheless, Verne was d'Ennery's best man during his marriage to the same Clémence Desgranges in May 1881.