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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).

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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [June 1919], to Albert NAHMIAS| 4 pages in-8. My little Albert, One crisis after another, no doubt caused by this cold, have prevented me from thanking you for
Borrel. [...] My advice is that he should go and work in his country. In my opinion, it is in his moral and material interest, and moreover the advice that Morane had given him. I can't tell you how touched I was by your great kindness. It has brought me back to our good days in Cabourg, whose charm I shall never forget. I hope to see you before you leave for America. I don't know if I'm going to stay in this paper house where you hear every sound and are frozen by every breeze. Three rooms in a sixth floor apartment in the Rue de Castiglione near the Rue de Rivoli would have been just what I needed. Unfortunately it's hard to find, and on the other hand Jacques Porel was so kind when he took me in here [8 bis rue Laurent-Pichat] that I can't make him wait until after July 1st to know whether I'm leaving or staying. I am telling you all this which is of no interest to you, but little Albert, in my letters to you, it is as if we were talking, so tired as I am, I find it hard to leave you...