Translations:CP 02915/40/en
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- ↑ As Proust says that his brother has been at the front for eight months this letter must date from about April 1915. Mention of the military exemption board which he will be attending "in the next few days" fix the terminus ante quem on 11 or 12 April 1915, the date at which he requests, and is granted, permission not to appear before the review board on 13 April as had been anticipated. Approaching the same subjects (the death of Bertrand de Fénelon, the military exemption board that he has to attend) and in almost the same words as in his letter to Mme de Caillavet dated [9 or 10 April 1915] (CP 02931; Kolb, XIV, no. 42), this letter must date from the same moment: after receipt, probably on 9 April 1915, of his summons from the review board, dated 8 April 1915 (CP 02930; Kolb, XIV, no 41), and before obtaining permission not to attend. [PK, FL]