1 | Date:1914 25 février Henry James à Edith Wharton: il n'a pas encore reçu l'exemplaire promis de Swann. Dearest Edith, The nearest I have come to receipt or possession of the interesting volumes you have so generously in mind is to have had Bernstein's assurance, when I met him here some time since, that he would give himself the delight of sending me the Proust production, which he learned from me that I hadn't seen. I tried to dissuade him from this excess, but nothing would serve--he was too yearningly bent upon it, and we parted with his asseveration that I might absolutely count on this tribute both to poor Proust's charms and to my own. But depuis lors--! he has evidently been less "en train" than he was so good as to find me. So that I shall indeed be "very pleased" to receive the Swann and the Vie et l'Amour from you at your entire convenience. It is indeed beautiful of you to think of these little deeds of kindness, little words of love (or is it the other way round?)
The Letters of Henry James
, selected and edited by Percy Lubbock, London,
MacMillan, 1920, vol. 2, pp. 370-1
Cf. fiche de janvier? 1914 [c70160]
Cf. fiche de janvier? 1914 [c70180]
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