Translations:CP 02812/72/en
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- ↑ The bank in question is M.M. Warburg & CO, founded in Hamburg in 1798 by Moses Marcus Warburg and his brother Gerson Warburg. In 1914, the bank's directors were Max Moritz Warburg and his younger brother Paul. See the history of the bank, in English and German. Proust appears to have mistaken "M.M." for the abbreviation "MM." (meaning "Messieurs," or "Sirs"), as we see throughout his correspondence with Hauser and with the bank itself (see Proust's letter to the Warburg Bank, CP 02811; Kolb, XIII, no. 160, where he writes "Messieurs" ; and Hauser's letter to Proust, CP 02810; Kolb, XIII, no. 159: "Messieurs Warburg"). [FL]