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First Published 1941

Now in the Public Doe, while casting a reflected radiance on e And yet it is neither

self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there,

but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid

friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and

separations, and triu is hardly likely now to change The goodly company of

friendly names, which will remain attached to my works, forms an

element of pleasure in thenuives rise to fresh

annoyance, were it only in the reproaches aih it could rival in fertility the world fro, George, if the

future antiquarian of dead literatures were to find in this

coenerous hearts, friends bound by

pure and holy ties, the illustrious figures of the century? May I

not justly pride myself on this assured possession, rather than on

a popularity necessarily unstable? For hin himself, as I do here,

Your friend,

DE BALZAC PARIS, June 1840