Translations:CP 05642/13/en
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- ↑ [Shortly before 7 July 1915] this summons being neither dated nor signed, and the card carrying no postmark, we can no longer date it any more accurately. Proust had received a first summons to appear before the Examining Board in April 1915: kept with an envelope carrying a postmark of Thursday 8 April, this first summons requested that he attend Tuesday 13 April at 03:30 AM (CP 02930; Kolb, XIV, no. 41), a second summons carrying a postmark of Saturday 10 April 1915 (CP 05643) came two days later to cancel the previous one and correct the time of the summons to 08:30. Having succeeded, by producing a medical certificate (CP 05640) in having himself exempted from attending the Discharge Board on 13 April 1915, Proust knew that he would be summoned again or visited at home by the Army medical officers. - He makes several references to this summons before the Special Discharge Commission in his letters from the start of July 1915: see for example to Robert de Montesquiou, CP 02969 (Kolb; XIV, no. 80). [FP, FL]