Translations:CP 02924/13/en

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  1. No letter from Eugénie Lémel has been discovered. Proust praised her epistolary gifts several times. In the only other currently known letter from Proust to this recipient, probably dating from January 1915, he was already using these same terms: "your letter of good wishes (for which I thank you) reawakens the remorse I feel about not having yet thanked you for the such exquisite feelings that you expressed to me in the one before." (CP 05416; Cher ami..., p. 105 and p. 350, BPRS 59). When she was still in the Prousts' service several letters from Marcel to his mother show that he enjoyed corresponding with this chambermaid: "Thank Eugénie very much for her charming letter. I'm going to reply to her" (letter from [24 September 1899]: CP 00522; Kolb, II, no. 216); or again: "remarkable letter [...] from Eugénie" (letter from [30 August 1901]: CP 00585; Kolb, II, no. 279). [PW]