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Marie de Régnier to Marcel Proust [Thursday, 11 December 1919]
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Mr Marcel Proust 44 Hamelin Street
To bring to your attention.
Dear Canaque[2] and friend
I am delighted with your success but I was hoping that you would get the great literary prize[3] and I was working for that... Well, "one is better than two, you know"...
I trust you don't mind me saying that I haven't thanked you yet for Young Girls in Bloom? It's a book I thoroughly enjoyed and what could be a better or more charming way to recover some lost time than to confide in the thread of these Arianes, who seem to already know of the future? Thank you for so many emotional and amusing hours - for these beautiful and charming portraits that I love. Saint-Loup and the Saint-Simonian Monsieur de Charlus!
My faithful and friendly memories,
Marie de Régnier