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that I would fain offer you. Are you still suffering—which I am very sorry to hear, and wish that my real sympathy could bring you some relief—I am making my reply to your critiques on another sheet, and by the aid of a machine which I hope you do not abominate: it is the machine on which Swann and
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one-third of the Jeunes Filles have been translated. Thus you can throw away this sheet unread, or keep it, or inflict it upon M. Gallimard." As Proust died very shortly after, on 18 November 1922, they had no further correspondence.
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495:Remembrance
473:Swann's Way
462:Temps perdu
452:Swann's Way
360:Noël Coward
322:New Witness
233:Robbie Ross
120:Nationality
1153:Categories
764:16 January
703:References
641:Pirandello
353:All at Sea
317:War Office
290:homoerotic
286:Shrewsbury
183:Early life
110:translator
106:Occupation
73:, Scotland
64:1889-09-25
1098:by Proust
957:, p. 152.
930:, p. 150.
829:, p.55-56
639:works by
408:Sonnet 30
375:The Times
240:New Field
207:Education
141:1894–1930
128:Education
29:Moncrieff
21:barrelled
1122:LibriVox
664:De Biron
623:Stendhal
616:Proust,
486:chapelet
229:Wildeana
193:Advocate
157:Scottish
1140:26 July
1111:at the
743:, p. 8.
673:Moncrif
419:Beowulf
266:Beowulf
244:Uranian
123:British
90:, Italy
1029:7 June
855:(2018)
533:(1930)
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512:(1925)
505:(1924)
138:Period
114:author
27:, not
682:Bloch
508:III.
1142:2016
1031:2022
766:2015
657:and
645:The
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529:VI.
515:IV.
501:II.
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