Letter from Pichot to his parents, addressed...

NRA-L-000009

Letter from Pichot to his parents, addressed through Monsieur Murat, undated

French letter from Pichot of the 3rd Colonial Battalion to his father and mother. The exterior is addressed to Monsieur Murat in Paris, while the writer asks that the reply be sent through Sister Rose at the military hospital on Île de Ré for delivery to him.

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NRA-L-000009

NRA-L-000009 image 1 showing the address panel and postal marks for Pichot's letter to Monsieur Murat in Paris. — **Image 1**Address panel and postal marks.

NRA-L-000009 image 2 showing Pichot's letter from the military hospital at Saint-Martin-de-Re, with the marginal date strip. — **Image 2**Letter text and marginal date.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000009
Date: undated; dated only as day 3; year unknown
Original date: Daté du 3 de l’isle de Ré St Martin
Type: Military or service document
Language: French / fr
Sender: Pichot
Recipient: Pichot's father and mother [textual addressees]
Places: Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France / Paris, France
Extent: 2 web-resolution images; address/exterior side and one page of letter text with marginal date
Signature: pichot
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000009.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Address Panel

Original transcript

A Mosieur Mosieur
Murat [des?]
Demeurant Rue de
La Mortellerie
Sur le Mero 59 2e etage
pres la rue goflanier
A paris

Address Panel

English translation

To Monsieur Murat
Residing on Rue de la Mortellerie
At No. 59, second floor
Near Rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier
Paris

Letter Text

Original transcript

Peut que vous pourés Sela Me Soulagera Bien ~
pour Manouritur Car la Nouritur que Noun ~
Mangeon Nés pas tros Noun ri Sante pour noun
geSui du 3-em Batalioun Colonialle Signé pichot
Je finis A Vous anbrasante de toun Mon ~
Coeur Mon Cher pére et Ma Cher Mere in Sit
Que Ma Cousin et le jénome qui et Ce Noun in
Sit que toun les Voisin Signé pichot
Vous adre Serés la lettre Si vous plise
à la Seure rosse de l'opital militer
de l' isle de ré St martin pour remettre a pichot
Je Vous prié + au grace de Mefere réponse de
+ Mon pere Suit Si vous plise
Marginal note:
Daté du 3 de l'isle de ré St martin

Letter Text

English translation

Perhaps you will be able to. That will relieve me greatly for my nourishment, because the food that we eat is not very nourishing for us.
I am in the 3rd Colonial Battalion.
Signed Pichot.
I finish by embracing you with all my heart, my dear father and my dear mother, as well as my cousin and the young man who is at our place, as well as all the neighbours.
Signed Pichot.
You will address the letter, if you please, to Sister Rose at the military hospital in Saint-Martin on the Île de Ré, to deliver to Pichot.
I beg you, my father, for mercy's sake, to give me an answer straight away, if you please.
Saint-Martin on the Île de Ré, the 3rd.

Notes

Marginal date: The separate vertical strip reads Daté du 3 de l'isle de ré St martin.

Discovery Terms

Historical correspondence
Private collection
Military or service document
French language

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