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Letter from Gustave Flaubert, Croisset, to Louise Colet, 1853 January 12 : autograph manuscript signed with initial.

BIB_ID
444459
Accession number
MA 14427.9
Creator
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880, sender.
Display Date
Coisset, Canteleu, France, 1853 January 12
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 21.7 x 17.5 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from Flaubert's "Correspondence" (Paris : Gallimard, 1973).
Dated "Mercredi 12 janvier 1852 [presumably an error as January 12 fell on a Wednesday in 1853 not 1852] 1 h."
Forms part of a collection of 15 letters from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet (see MA 14427.1-15).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Speaks of his frustration and torment in writing Madame Bovary. Goes on to give her suggestions for improving the vocabulary and expression of her ideas in her poems "Fantomes" and "La Paysanne."