Translations:CP 03780/22/en
- ↑ See Grasset's letter of 22 May [19]19 (CP 03779; Kolb, XVIII, no. 98). Proust misrepresented the words of his old editor by claiming that he was asking him for the "first fruits of his book." No doubt he was trying to put pressure on Gallimard by suggesting that in the case of an extended delay he could well give Grasset some long unpublished extracts from À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. [FL]