<meta content="urn:uuid:b5892a72-07c3-41f0-8075-78332e60d72e" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p16"><a id="a1363"/><span class="t15">XXII. TO OSSIP-LOURIÉ</span></p> <p class="p17">(Mr. Ossip-Lourié is a French-Russian author whose book, “La Philosophic Sociale dans le Théatre d’Ibsen,” appeared in 1900.)</p> <p class="p20"> </p> <p class="p20">CHRISTIANIA, February 19th, 1899</p> <p class="p20"> </p> <p class="p20"><span class="t8">Mr. Ossip-Lourié:</span></p> <p class="p20">I AM much obliged to you for your kind offer of the plan to publish some thoughts extracted from my works, and with great pleasure grant the desired approval.</p> <p class="p20">I only ask you to remember that the thoughts expressed in my dramas belong to my dramatic characters, who express them, and are not directly from me either in form or content.</p> <p class="p20"> </p> <p class="p20">Yours respectfully and obligedly, </p> <p class="p20">HENRIK IBSEN</p> </body> </html>