Letter from Eugène Frachon to Jn Mᵉ... (1838)

NRA-L-000535 / 1838

Letter from Eugène Frachon to Jn Mᵉ Frachon, 1838-03-25

Eugène Frachon writes to his uncle J. M. Frachon with an update on his father's health.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000535

NRA-L-000535 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-000535 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-000535
Date: 1838-03-25
Original date: Tournon 25 mars 1838
Type: Family correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Eugène Frachon
Recipient: Jn Mᵉ Frachon
Places: Tournon / Annonay
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000535.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Address panel

Original transcript

Monsieur
Jn Mᵉ Frachon
chez Mᵉ Duret et Chomel
Annonay
Ardèche

Address panel

English translation

Monsieur
Jn Mᵉ Frachon
chez Mᵉ Duret et Chomel
Annonay
Ardèche

Documentary page 2

Original transcript

Tournon 25 mars 1838

Mon cher oncle

Mon père est mieux toujours mieux, la nuit
a été bonne, le Sommeil tranquille, dans
la matinée il a pris a 2 h d'intervales
4 cuillerées de bouillon sa débilité très legere
il a bien passé enfin le docteur en
nous quittant à midi m'a dit qu'il
était en convalescence.
je viens de lui dire que j'allais t'ecrire
il m'a chargé de t'observer qu'il avait
remarqué que d'après une lettre du docteur
tu avais commencé
à travailler sur tes livres et de te recommander
de ne faire ce travail, tu devrais faire
élever un pupitre pour écrire droit, et jamais
après les repas, car alors l'estomac est moins
gêné, moins comprimé.
je ne t'ai pas écrit depuis la [?] lettre
d'eleonore, cela paraîtra tard la [m?]
n'est plus depuis le 17 de ce mois je
n'ai pas encore pensé a t'offrir de cette
triste nouvelle.
Louis est-il parti pour Alger, il viendra
je pense prendre ici le bateau a Vapeur,
nous aurons le plaisir de l'embrasser
cette destionation doit tourmenter ta
tante;
François t'a t'il donné de ses nouvelles,
tu voudras bien donner des nouvelles
de mppero à sa famille.
adieu, mon cher oncle, je suis ici avec ma sœur
embrassent del.
Eugène Frachon

Documentary page 2

English translation

Tournon, 25 March 1838

My dear uncle,

My father is better—steadily better. The night was good and his sleep peaceful. During the morning he took four spoonfuls of broth at two-hour intervals and tolerated them well. The doctor, on leaving us at noon, told me that he was convalescing.

I have just told him that I was going to write to you. He asked me to point out that, from a letter by the doctor, he had noticed that you had begun working on your account books. He recommends that you use a raised desk so that you can write upright, and never work after meals, when the stomach is more constrained and compressed.

I have not written to you since [the news concerning Éléonore]. She has been dead since the 17th of this month; I had not yet brought myself to give you this sad news.

Has Louis left for Algiers? I think he will come here to take the steamer; we shall have the pleasure of embracing him. This destination must distress your aunt.

Has François sent you any news? Please give [Mr Perret?]'s family news of him.

Farewell, my dear uncle. I am here with my sister; we embrace you.

Eugène Frachon

Discovery Terms

Health and illness
Family correspondence
Frachon Family Correspondence

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