Letter in french signed Dumoulin 1865
| Klubbat belopp | Osåld |
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| Utropspris | 1 500 SEK |
DUMOULIN, Louis-Jules. Autograph letter signed (ASL), 2 pages in small 8vo (180x110 mm), dated (probably) 4 Janvier 1885.
Dumouin (1860-1924), a French painter. He travelled in the Far East and was founder of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français in 1908.
He writes about his mother in a charming way.
"Madame,
J´apprends par ma mère combien vous avez été bonne et combien affectueusement vous lui avez prodigué soins et amitié pendant sa maladie.
Permettez-moi de vous remercier de tout mon coeur d´avoir consolé ma chère mère d´être sans moi pour la soigner et la guérir.
Oserais-je vous prier, Madame, de veiller encore sur elle et de me donner la certitude que si la fatalité voulait qu´elle fut encore souffrante, elle serait encore une fois sauvée par vous.
Elle est si délicate que ce serait pour moi une grande consolation que de la savoir près d´amis l´aimant presque autant que nous."
"Madam,
I learn from my mother how good you have been and how affectionately you have lavished care and friendship on her during her illness.
Allow me to thank you with all my heart for having consoled my dear mother for being without me to heal and cure her.
Dare I ask you, Madam, to watch over her again and to give me the certainty that if fatality wanted her to be still suffering, she would be saved once again by you.
She is so delicate that it would be a great comfort for me to know her near friends who love her almost as much as we do."
Provenance: Stavsund castle, the family of Klinckowström, Sweden.
Folded once, small tear to folding.
