From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: This unusual electoral address from the pen of Dumas—not easy to procure in its original form—gives details of his work and of the number of persons he has been the means of keeping in employment, and of the sums of money that have been earned by them as the result of his labours : printers, paper-makers, bookbinders, etc., etc. ; actors, decorators, costumiers, bill-stickers, etc., etc. This appeal was dated March, 1848,
The text may now be read in Lecomte's "Alexandre Dumas," pp. 191-92; or in "La Nouvelle Revue" for 1881, No. VIII., pp. 405-407, the article by Jules Claretie: "Alexandre Dumas, homme politique."
It may also be read in Fossé d'Arcosse's "Feuillets Détachés."
