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The pleasures of poverty (a wife's pleading) : autograph manuscript signed "Max O'Rell," [1896?].

BIB_ID
108710
Accession number
MA 823
Creator
Blouet, Paul, 1848-1903.
Display Date
[1896?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (13 p.) ; 22 cm
Notes
Manuscript differs slightly from the published version.
With a pencilled note "Set this in ... as 'A Newport Symposium,' in August 1896."
Summary
Humorous vignette concerning a painter and his wife who have risen out of poverty; she remembers the days of poverty fondly, while he concludes that "the greatest pleasure in connection with [his] days of poverty ... is that [he] is poor no longer."