" JTILLETTE DROUET'S LOVE.LETTERS TO VICTOR HUGO."
[To ran Horton or THL "Smormoo.1 Ste,—I read the excellent critique on the above in last Saturday's issue of your journal, and also Mr. Oscar Parker's letter giving the details of Mr. H. W, Wack's contribution to the English Illustrated Magazine. In 1905 Mr. Weak published the articles under the title of The Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Hugo in an attractive and well- illustrated book with an introduction by Francois Cop*. He must have made considerable additions to the contribu- tions in the English illustrated Magasins, as there are thirty-six letters of Mine. Drouet in addition to two from an unknown lady to Victor Hugo signed "Claire." The original Drouet letters are the property of Mr. W. A. Luff, of St Peterport, Guernsey. Mine. Droners name was originally Julienne Josephine Gauvin, and she was born et Fougeres in 1800. She was an only child, and having lost both parents before she was a year old, she was adopted by Jean Baptiste Drouet a grand-uncle who lived in Paris, and whose surname she adopted. In 1829 she dropped the name of Julienne Josephine and thereafter called herself Juliette. She died May 11th, 1883.—I am, Sir, &c.,
60 Granville Road, Walthamstow.
T. H. ASHELPOZD.
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