Jean CHARCOT (1867-1936). L.A.S., Saint-Malo July 5, 1903, to a friend; 1 1/2 pages in-8, letterhead with vignette of the Grand Hôtel Franklin St Malo, with stamp Change of ownership. He thanks his friend's mother for her exquisite note. "The work here is proceeding with its usual slowness, but it is proceeding and the machine is now turning very nicely"... [He is having his three-masted ship Le Français built in Saint-Malo].