Translations:CP 03098/13/en
- ↑ These documents have not come down to us. - The expression "In the meantime" indicates that a certain lapse of time has taken place between the moment Proust wrote his previous letter to Hauser, Saturday 13 May, and the moment he finds this letter on his table, the day he received the documents sent by the de Rothschild Frères. Note the Proust uses the present tense ("In the meantime de Rothschild Frères are sending me [...]") and not the past tense, which suggests that he has only just received the post. The convergence of these two factors lead us to date this letter [Monday 15 May 1916], since on Tuesday 16 Hauser had already received it (see note 1 above). [FL]