Letter from Édouard Manet, Paris, to Suzanne Manet, 1870 December 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing of the cold, the lack of fuel, and the spread of illness in the besieged city; adding that the people staying in Jules de Jouy's apartment have smallpox; saying that he hopes she has distractions, that she is taking walks and playing the piano; adding that he hopes his mother's health is better and that she isn't worried about them; saying that Gustave and Eugène aren't writing only because they know he is writing for all of them; adding that he looks at her portrait morning and night.