![PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922). Autograph letter signed ('votre fidélement reconnaissant et dévoué/Marcel Proust') to an unidentified correspondent ('Mon cher Docteur' i.e. Dr Ladislas Landowski), '44 rue Hamelin/(addresse quasi confidentielle)', n.d. [after 18 October 1920], 4 pages, 8vo (slightly worn in outer margins).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/CKS/2000_CKS_06298_0072_000(011249).jpg?w=1)
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PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922). Autograph letter signed ('votre fidélement reconnaissant et dévoué/Marcel Proust') to an unidentified correspondent ('Mon cher Docteur' i.e. Dr Ladislas Landowski), '44 rue Hamelin/(addresse quasi confidentielle)', n.d. [after 18 October 1920], 4 pages, 8vo (slightly worn in outer margins).
A reply to a letter of congratulation ('félicitations pour bien peu de chose!') recalling Landowski's relationship with his parents. 'Votre souvenir est intimement lié pour moi aux heures les plus douces comme aux heures les plus tristes de ma vie...je me souviens trop du charme personnel, de la douce et decisive autorité de votre intelligence, pour que votre nom et tout ce qui l'accompagne, ne renaisse de lui-même dans mes longues heures de solitude où la mémoire fait son choix et n'élit pour compagnie que les êtres préferés'. He would have taken pleasure in seeing Landowski again, but if one day chance brings them together, the doctor will perhaps think he is a hypochondriac ('un malade imaginaire'), but unfortunately this is only how it seems. He sends warm greetings to Landowski and his family.
The letter to which Proust replies would have been to congratulate him on receiving the Légion d'Honneur. It may be dated by his reference to having been prevented from writing sooner by a fever of 40 degrees, which he also mentioned in a letter of October 18th to Madame Straus. The proofs which he writes that he was correcting while ill were of Le Côté de Guermantes, published in the autumn of 1920.
A reply to a letter of congratulation ('félicitations pour bien peu de chose!') recalling Landowski's relationship with his parents. 'Votre souvenir est intimement lié pour moi aux heures les plus douces comme aux heures les plus tristes de ma vie...je me souviens trop du charme personnel, de la douce et decisive autorité de votre intelligence, pour que votre nom et tout ce qui l'accompagne, ne renaisse de lui-même dans mes longues heures de solitude où la mémoire fait son choix et n'élit pour compagnie que les êtres préferés'. He would have taken pleasure in seeing Landowski again, but if one day chance brings them together, the doctor will perhaps think he is a hypochondriac ('un malade imaginaire'), but unfortunately this is only how it seems. He sends warm greetings to Landowski and his family.
The letter to which Proust replies would have been to congratulate him on receiving the Légion d'Honneur. It may be dated by his reference to having been prevented from writing sooner by a fever of 40 degrees, which he also mentioned in a letter of October 18th to Madame Straus. The proofs which he writes that he was correcting while ill were of Le Côté de Guermantes, published in the autumn of 1920.
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