Marcel PROUST – Letter to his friend Georges de Lauris.

Marcel Proust (1871.1922)

Autograph letter signed to Georges de Lauris.

Three pages in-12° on mourning paper. Slnd [October 1906]

 Kolb. Volume VI, p. 234-235.

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"My dear Georges, I assure you that your letter has lifted an inevitable weight from my heart. Alas, I have others, more crushing every day, which nothing will ever lift again. But finally, in the sense that this word can have, your letter has caused me an inevitable happiness, not so much in this absence of crises which may be fortuitous as in Gilbert's opinion that the operation was not necessary and especially in its urgency, which proves that we had blackened ourselves too much about all this. May all the days that will come respond to this, the medical treatment be enough and in one way or another your mother finally look back on a life that your affection and your talent will make so sweet and so proud. With all my heart to you, Marcel. I have discovered a delightful poet: his name is Lafontaine."