[ Guillaume Lejean, French ethnographer and African explorer. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('G. Lejean') to unnamed correspondent, regarding his writing for various publications, and a spat in Le Pays between Lamartine and the Vicomte de La Guéronnière.

2pp., 8vo. On bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly-aged and creased paper. 52 lines of text, written in a close and difficult hand. He begins by explaining his silence 'depuis deux grands mois'. He refers to 'notre ennuyeux papier, comme Guilmer continue à appeler les journaux', and states that he has been doing 'un peu de redaction dans le Pays, soit la Revue de la Presse, soit les comptes rendus des Académies'. He begins by explaining his silence 'depuis deux grands mois'. He refers to 'notre ennuyeux papier, comme Guilmer continue à appeler les journaux', and states that he has been doing 'un peu de redaction dans le Pays, soit la Revue de la Presse, soit les comptes rendus des Académies'. He also refers to Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) and the 'Portrait ridicule et niaisement flatté qu'a fait La Guéronnière de Titus-Auguste-Werther Bonaparte' - a character sketch of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in Le Pays by the Vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816-1875). (1816-1875). Apparewntly he was sometime French consul at Massawaand author of "[L'Afrique inconnue, 1860 - 1862.] Voyage de M. Guillaume Lejean dans l'Afrique orientale, 1860" and [article?] " Gondokoro, esquisse d'un voyage au Nil Blanc, 1861". Jules Verne mentions his exploits several times in "Five Weeks in a Balloon: Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa". Senegal, Abyssinia (Ethiopia), and the two Niles appear relevant.