Émile ZOLA. L.A.S., Paris June 6, 1867, to Jules Richard; 1page in-8. He sends the journalist "two publications that I recommend to your good soul. "A few lines, please, in one of your first columns in La Situation. I leave you the brochure [Édouard Manet]. Tell me the truth, the simple truth, your own truth. But pity the Mystères de Marseille. I know the work is bad. You wouldn't be teaching me anything, you wouldn't be correcting me by telling me big truths in public; and you'd be hurting the poor provincial newspaper that's currently publishing the other parts of the novel. Be gentle, please, and, if possible, write that Les Mystères appears in the Messager de Provence, in Marseille. I'm not asking this for myself, nor for my family, but for my Director"... He gives his address as "1, rue Moncey, Batignolles".