Letter from Frachon to Jean Marie Frachon (1839)

NRA-L-000534 / 1839

Letter from Frachon to Jean Marie Frachon, 1839-05-20

A brief letter fragment detailing the sender's recovery, diet (broth, bread, eggs, poultry), and routine of getting up to eat before resting again.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000534

NRA-L-000534 image 1 showing a folded address panel to a Frachon correspondent with postal marks, routing notes, seals and visible folds. — **Image 1**Address panel, postal evidence and retained annotations.

NRA-L-000534 image 2 showing a handwritten French letter continuation with closing, signature, later notes, folds and paper edges. — **Image 2**Letter text and closing.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000534
Date: 1839-05-20
Type: Family correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Frachon
Recipient: Jean Marie Frachon
Places: Paris / Annonay
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000534.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Address panel

Original transcript

Monsieur
Monsieur Jean Marie
Frachon
Annonay
Ardèche

Address panel

English translation

Monsieur
Monsieur Jean Marie
Frachon
Annonay
Ardèche

Documentary page 2

Original transcript

et ce que je fais et ce que me donne
a manger mon Docteur
Je commence a me lever tous les
jours pour manger je reste levé
jusqu'à ce que je me sente fatigué
C'est a dire hier je suis resté un heure
et demi je pense rester deux heures
je dine a mon aise et puis quand
je me sens fatigué je me recouche
J'ai mangé au jour d'hui ce matin une
assiette a soupe de bouillon gras dans
laquelle il y a gros comme comme deux
doigt de pain et la même meme quantité
pour manger deux oeuf a la coq ce soir
j'ai la même quantité de pain et mon
assiette de bouillon et un petit morceau
de volaille
Adieu je vous embrasse tous
Frachon

Documentary page 2

English translation

and what I do and what my doctor gives me
to eat
I am starting to get up every
day to eat I stay up
until I feel tired
That is to say yesterday I stayed up an hour
and a half I think I will stay two hours
I dine at my ease and then when
I feel tired I go back to bed
I ate today this morning a
soup plate of fatty broth in
which there is about the size of two
fingers of bread and the same same quantity
to eat two soft-boiled eggs tonight
I have the same quantity of bread and my
plate of broth and a little piece
of poultry
Farewell I kiss you all
Frachon

Discovery Terms

Health and illness
Diet
Frachon Family Correspondence

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