Translations:CP 05635/15/en
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- ↑ In a letter to the same recipient from [just before 8 April 1918] (CP 03524; Kolb, XVII, no. 84 ; MP-GG, no. 54) Proust confirmed that he hadn’t received the section relating to Monsieur de Charlus or the end of the text, which hadn’t yet been made available in galley proof form. (Philip Kolb had initially dated the letter in question [beginning of April 1918]. After the publication of the MP-GG volume, in which Pascal Fouché suggests the date of [beginning of April 1918] for this letter, Kolb corrected the date of this letter as [just before 8 April 1918] in his personal copy. We follow this correction.) — These “first 244 pages” relate to the third series which contains the third proofs of “Mme Swann” and the second proofs of “Balbec 1”. The reason behind the difference in 26 pages between the number announced here by Proust and the receipt by Madame Lemarié of '270 pages' (CP 04460; MP-GG, no. 57) may be found in the missing opening part of the following letter (CP 03517; Kolb, XVII, no. 77, MP-GG, no. 56). See Francine Goujon, "Les épreuves de ‘À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs’: deux lettres à redater", BMP, no. 48, 1998, p. 42-48, and specifically the summary table of the various proof series, p. 47. [CSz]