marie-duplessis: Letter from Édouard Manet to Mme Jules Guillemet, 1880 Translation: Bellevu

marie-duplessis:

Letter from Édouard Manet to Mme Jules Guillemet, 1880

Translation:
Bellevue, Thursday [July-August 1880]
To Mme Jules Guillemet

Nonsense if you will, dear Madame, but such sweet nonsense [sketches of her shoes and skirts] which enables me to spend my time very pleasantly. I’m getting better and better, and a letter from you now and then would help my cure along - so don’t be too economical with them.

I haven’t seen Mlle L. [Lemonnier], her mother is very ill and she is moving. Still, I’m surprised to have had no news from her. I hope you won’t find my letters a bore, you’ll tell me, won’t you, and send me your news soon
E. Manet