George SAND. L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862,... - Lot 190 - Ader

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George SAND. L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862,... - Lot 190 - Ader
George SAND. L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862, to the painter Charles Marchal in Bouwxiller (Bas-Rhin); 5 pages and a quarter in-8, envelope. Lovely letter to his painter friend. "But what's become of you, my fat friend? [...] My tender heart longs to know that you have come out of the ice and snow of Alsace, and when I think that it is my fault, because my portraits have kept you in Paris for an infinite time! Finally, you tell me in your last letter that you brave the cold like a polar bear. Are you happy to be strong and young! You enjoy the winter which, in the country, is just as beautiful for the eyes as the summer. I am locked up by age and cold, and oppression by my fire. I am not sick, but so weak that I am not allowed to go out. I find a convalescence of fifteen months very long. - I forget as best I can all that is bothering me by working like an old negro. She evokes their friend Alexandre Dumas fils: "His letter to him was not cheerful. I had found for a month a suspension or an oblivion of these preoccupations that you know, but he has fallen back into them again. Let us hope that this will be the last relapse. She then speaks of "our friend from the Royal Palace" (Prince Napoleon) who was almost lost: "We hid him, but he had an abscess in his throat and a fever with delirium, very worrying. He was saved and even on his feet or thereabouts. I was worried. I love him, you know, and I forgive him for being a prince, because he has serious and great qualities. She asks Marchal about the photos of his portrait on sale at Nadar's... Correspondence, t. XVI, n° 9368.
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