NADAR sends his photographs to one of his friends.

Félix TOURNACHON, known as NADAR (1820.1910)

Signed autograph letter.

Two pages ½ in-8° on paper in its own number.

Collection stamp and orange trace on the 2nd ^sheet .

Marseilles. March 12, 1902.

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“I am crushed with confusion before you, my good and dear one, always so ready to serve others and towards whom do I see myself at fault? I have just gone through such an hourvari of hustles (transfer of establishment…) – not to mention my native bewilderment and my octogenarian decrepitude – that your charity will forgive me.

The worst part is, in this mess, that without the autograph , for the other documents that I attach, I must assume that they could have been used by Mr. Armand Dayot whom I do not know personally but who was the first addressed to me for a study similar to yours. Are you in contact with him for information ?

In any case, I am therefore sending you a letter which I do not have time, given your urgency, to have photographed and which I recommend to you as of your eyes, the apple, – plus 17 photos. that I would be obliged to return to me when you have used it . If you use it. I no longer have the photos. Try not to imitate the detestable example given by me, and pardon, pardon, pardon. Yours all yours, Nadar.

There was the very beautiful idea of ​​your Evening Museum : Would you not add the no less precious creation of a Museum of the Revolution – from 89. 93 – and previously in all the centuries to my Armand Barbès and de Barbès to my Recluses??? – But our people today are so unrevolutionary. In any case, a reminder that I have a few pieces of high interest as a contingency. »