BIB_ID
446377
Accession number
MA 3408.19
Creator
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1870 December 18.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1971.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.5 x 10.6 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Dated "18 Dec 1870."
On fragile onion-skin paper.
Previously numbered MA 3408 (18).
Dated "18 Dec 1870."
On fragile onion-skin paper.
Previously numbered MA 3408 (18).
Summary
Writing that he doesn't have much hope for success, but that they must fight to the end; saying he consoles himself for the lack of news from them by thinking that they are being spared the shortages and bad food in Paris; adding that he thinks often of her and her love of vegetables, and saying that in the besieged city a cabbage costs twenty francs; sending news of Eugène and Gustave; adding that they are concerned about not hearing from Jules; sending instructions for his mother regarding money; adding in a postscript that he saw Ferdinand yesterday.
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