Translations:CP 03031/37/en
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- ↑ Although responding to a letter from Hauser of 20 November 1915 (CP 03030; Kolb, XIV, no. 142), the present letter cannot be from any earlier than 22 November: cf. mention of the death of Noël Bardac (see note 9 below). As Proust enclosed in the same envelope a stock market or bank document relative to the sale of 200 North Caucasian securities, it is possible that he had not posted this letter but had it delivered by hand by Céleste Albaret, she having in fact made a visit to Hauser's bank on 24 November. This letter could therefore date from 22 or 23 November 1915. Hauser, short of staff and overwhelmed by numerous subscriptions to a new loan offer, would not reply to it until 26 November (CP 03034; Kolb, XIV, no. 146). As for the letter from Hauser of 23 November 1915 (CP 03032; Kolb, XIV, no. 144), in which the banker announces his discovery of an unofficial market in which North Caucasian had in fact been priced at 36 francs per share, it is probable that he wrote it before he received this one (otherwise he would not have failed to confirm receipt of the broker's document); but it was not sent until several days later, joined with Hauser's reply of 26 November. [PK, FL]