Dumas Fils (Alexandre)

Autograph letter signed ('A. Dumas F.') to Sarah Bernhardt, in French, saying that Desbarolles would like to do a study of her hand "in a beautiful book, which will be published, and tell the whole world if you are as bad as they say or as good as I am. In any case the experience will interest you, especially if you allow him to tell you everything he will see in these little claws that I kiss...", three pages, light folding marks and creasing, 8vo, Salneuve (Loiret), n.d.

***Adolphe Desbarrolles (22 August 1801 – 11 February 1886) is considered the father of palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination.