CCCXIX. To MAURICE SAND
Tuesday morning, April, 1880
My dear Maurice,
No! Erase Cruchard and Polycarp and replace those words by what you
like.
The Public ought not to have all of us,--let us reserve something
for ourselves. That seems to me more decent (quod decet). You do not
speak of a COMPLETE EDITION? Ah! your poor dear mamma! How often I
think of her! And what need I have of her! There is not a day when I
do not say: "If she were there, I should ask her advice."
I shall be at Croisset till the 8th or the 10th of May. So, my old
fellow, when you wish to come there, you will be welcome. I embrace
you all from the oldest to the youngest.
Cruchard for you,
Polycarp for the human race,