Alexandre Dumas (Father): Autograph signed manuscript on the unification of Italy

Alexandre DUMAS (Father) (1802 - 1870), French writer and playwright
Signed autograph manuscript entitled "Profession of faith".
(1861-1864); 7 pages in-4th on single leaflets

Manuscript work, scratched and crossed out with surcharges and additions to be published in one of the two newspapers headed by Dumas the Independant or Monte Cristo at the time of his presence in
Naples between 1861 and 1864.

Text of great richness on the role of Dumas in the unification of Italy, his financial support to Garibaldi, on the death and resurrection of his newspaper "The Independant".

"One of our friends asks us why at the top of our newspaper we did not put our political profession of faith. We told him that we did not believe that a profession of
political faith was necessary at the head of the newspaper of the man who is both the friend of Victor Hugo and Garibaldi who was made during the dictatorship several times citizens of Sicily and who for two years have been wasting time to spend money for the cause of Italy - You should have then insisted the same friend make a moral profession. - We thought we had done this profession
of faith the day we wrote the following lines."

Dumas recalls, without reproducing, the profession of faith published in the first series of the Independant and if that is not enough, one can easily look into the glass house he has built, in his heart, in his mind and even in his purse. Why did Dumas suspend the Independent for a year?
Because he owed 18,000 francs. He set to work and wrote thirty volumes for France, whose royalties cover the debts. In addition to the money he brought back from France he received a sum on which he did not count, the sum of 90,000 francs advanced to Garibaldi for arms purchases. The Italian government settled the debt of Garibaldi with 6523 francs. This money enabled him to revive the Independant, "an honest, free, candid newspaper to compare sheets to scandal of Naples." Subscribers brought in new subscribers.
Dumas concludes his article: "But if you believe it disinterested good and loyal if you believe that the principles we propagate are those who can contribute to happiness to unity to glory of Italy - association is not enouh. We need your help, it is necessary that each one of you operates in its circle (...) so that we are not for this time again of us
interrupt after six months. (...) Here is the story of the death and resurrection of the Independant!"