Autograph letter signed : London, to Emile Zola, 1898 Feb. 24.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Emile Zola, 1898 Feb. 24.

Reminding Zola that they met at a lunch with the editor Heinemann, at his club in London, and praising extravagantly Zola's reporting on the Dreyfus affair in France; saying that he joins "_all_ our colleagues of the pen ... and of the soul" in a "communal outcry" and that all of England and all of America are "inflamed and indignant" [at the treatment of Alfred Dreyfus]; and praising Zola's "rare and solitary courage."

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