"I am therefore sending you a letter which, given your urgency, I don't have time to photograph, and which I recommend to you as if it were your very own eye—plus 17 photos that I would be grateful if you would return to me once you have used them.". »
450€
Félix TOURNACHON, known as NADAR (1820.1910)
Signed autograph letter.
Two and a half pages in-8° on paper bearing his monogram.
Collector's stamp and orange mark on the 2nd sheet .
Marseille. March 12, 1902.
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"I am overwhelmed with shame before you, my good and dear, always so ready to serve others and in relation to whom do I see myself in such a fault? I have just gone through such a hurricane of jostling (transfer of establishment…) – not to mention my native bewilderment and my octogenarian decrepitude – that your charity will forgive me.
handwritten letter , I have to assume that the other documents I'm attaching may have been used by Mr. Armand Dayot, whom I don't know personally but who first contacted me for a study similar to yours. Are you in contact with him to find out more ?
In any case, I am sending you a letter that I don't have time to photograph, given your urgency, and which I entrust to you as if it were your own eye—plus 17 photos that I would be grateful if you would return them to me once you have used them . If you do use them. I no longer have the prints. Please try not to imitate the deplorable example I set, and forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. Yours truly, Nadar.
There was the very fine idea of your Evening Museum : Wouldn't you add the no less valuable creation of a Museum of the Revolution – of '89, '93 – and before that, in all the centuries, to my Armand Barbès and from Barbès to my Recluses??? – But our people today are so unrevolutionary. In any case, remember that I have some pieces of great interest as a contingency.