COLETTE. L.A.S., [Paris 25 December 1944], to Maurice Saurel; 3 pages in-8 on paper with a lace border decorated with a large chromolithographed vignette representing two hands joined on a forget-me-not heart and surrounded by a crown of roses, envelope. "Hello, Happy New Year! Dear friend, don't make fun of those papers I like. This one, which carries two friendly hands and a forget-me-not heart, suits the feeling that binds us together very well. I have a nice little book for you, illustrated by Dignimont [Trois, six, neuf], that Correa finally decides to "go out", as we are wrong to say "... She evokes her doctor Marthe Lamy, whom Dr. Chadourne has put in "a well oxygenated preventorium", to hasten her convalescence. "But she is a goat that is difficult to tie up. Nothing else, except that I can walk less and less. But I am not displeased with the state of mind that allows me to resign myself to being an official cripple. For once I am happy with myself ...