BIB_ID
195584
Accession number
MA 13184
Creator
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Display Date
undated.
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Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; (8vo)
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Responding to her reproaches and accusations that he is negelcting her; points out that as an author, she should show greater understanding and realize that writers have two sets of proofs to correct, the initial ones and the final galleys; protests that he is not being selfish or forgetful, but she must understand that he must work on his manuscripts day and night; to make her happy, he will dine with her that evening but must leave by 7:30 on a personal or possible legal matter.
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