Lot n° 136
ORWELL (GEORGE) Down and Out in Paris and London; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four; and 2 Orwell First editions (5) Autograph letter signed ("C. Pissarro") to his wife Julie ("Ma chère femme"), in French, a long letter beginning by commenting on the rainy weather, on staying with French people in Kew and that he has written to Miss Cassat, responding to her letter on the purchase of their house from Edeline ("...n'importe puisque tu tiens à y rester que le déménagement t'effraye il faut l'acheter, je n'aime pas à rester dans le doute..."), surprised he hasn't heard from Tessier as he needs him to handle the legalities, exhorting her to sort the matter out herself if she wants the house, and reminding her that he will need to produce more paintings to pay for it, ending by agreeing she should return to Eragny due to the cholera epidemic in Paris and that Lucien expects to be married within the month, 4 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining, creased at folds, 8vo (155 x 102mm.), Kew, 5 July 1892
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