Translations:CP 03098/10/en
- ↑ Lionel Hauser had written in pencil, at the top of this letter, the date "15(?) May 1916," just as in his reply, on 17 May 1916, he indicates that he had "received your letter of the 13th inst., and the one of 15(?)." (CP 03099; Kolb, XV, no. 35). If, on the 17th, Hauser had judged that Proust's letter must have dated from Monday 15 May (and not Tuesday 16), it was because, in all likelihood, it must have been deposited at his bank Monday 16 (not through the post, which would have allowed Hauser to look at the postmark, but delivered by Céleste Albaret), and on Tuesday 16 he had been taking tactful steps to try to get Proust a lower interest rate, as he explains in his reply of 17 May. But could this letter, which follows on from that of Saturday 13 May, date from Sunday 14 or Monday 15? As Proust explains in it he had just received some documents from the de Rothschild Frères bank (see note 4 below), documents that he had not yet received Saturday 13 May at the time of his previous letter to Hauser (CP 03097; Kolb, XV, no. 33), the present letter must therefore date from [Monday 15 May 1916]. [PK, FL]