Translations:CP 02892/10/en

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  1. The Andrieux auction catalogue from 12 March 1928, lot no. 174, indicates that this handwritten letter is dated 9 January 1915. In the absence of the letter’s original, we cannot verify whether the date is correct and written by Proust or noted down by the addressee. The fact that Proust asserts having seen the name of the addressee’s brother “the day before yesterday” among those who died for their country, dates the letter 6 or 7 January (see note 4 below). But these chronological inaccuracies are frequent in his correspondence. [PK, FL]