George SAND (1804-1876). L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862, to - Lot 144

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George SAND (1804-1876). L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862, to - Lot 144
George SAND (1804-1876). L.A.S., Nohant January 25, 1862, to painter Charles Marchal in Bouxwiller (Bas-Rhin); 5pages and a quarter in-8, envelope. Lovely letter to his painter friend. "What's become of you, my fat friend? [...] My tender heart longs to see you out of the ice and snow of Alsace, and when I think that it's 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. How happy you are to be strong and young! You enjoy winter, which in the countryside is just as beautiful for the eyes as summer. I'm locked in by age and a cold, and oppressed by my fireside. I'm not ill, but I'm still so weak that I'm not allowed to go out. I find a convalescence of fifteen months very long. - I forget as best I can everything that's bothering me, working like an old nigger". She recalls their friend Alexandre Dumas fils: "His letter was not a happy one. I had found for a month a suspension or oblivion of these preoccupations you know, but he fell back into them again. Let's hope it's the last relapse". She goes on to talk about "our friend from the Royal Palace" (Prince Napoleon), whom we almost lost: "We hid him, but he had an abscess in his throat and a fever with delirium, very worrying. Now he's safe and on his feet or thereabouts. I've been 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 her portrait for sale at Nadar's... Correspondance, t.XVI, n°9368.
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