Letter from Ed. Frachon to Jn Mᵉ Frachon (1840)

NRA-L-000541 / 1840

Letter from Ed. Frachon to Jn Mᵉ Frachon, 1840-11-17

Ed. Frachon writes to his mother about two enclosed letters, a possible position, news of his father and flooding at Les Brotteaux.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000541

NRA-L-000541 image 1 showing a folded address panel to a Frachon correspondent with postal marks, forwarding notes, seals and visible folds. — **Image 1**Address panel, postal evidence and retained annotations.

NRA-L-000541 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-000541
Date: 1840-11-17
Original date: Lyon 17 nov. 1840
Type: Family correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Ed. Frachon
Recipient: Jn Mᵉ Frachon
Places: Lyon / Annonay
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000541.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Address panel

Original transcript

Monsieur
Jn Mᵉ Frachon
à Annonay
Ardèche

Address panel

English translation

Monsieur
Jn Mᵉ Frachon
at Annonay
Ardèche

Documentary page 2

Original transcript

Ma très chère mère
Je m'empresse de vous envoyer ces deux lettres qui vous feront
je n'en doute pas beaucoup de plaisir je pense que vous n'hesiterez
pas à donner votre consentement, car je trouve cette place bien
avantageuse pour un commencement, il reste à savoir si c'est
une maison qui marche bien et ou il puisse avoir l'espoir d'avancer
ce qui doit etre aisement. le cousin Pirot qui doit la connaître
ne lui l'aurait pas conseillée d'y entrer. J'attends avec impatience
des nouvelles du père tu es en retard cette fois pour m'en donner
j'ai ecrit aujourd'hui à Françoy
adieu je t'embrasse bien fort et te prie de ne pas m'oublier
auprès de la soeur et du père
Ton fils qui t'aime tendrement
J'aurais bien mis cette lettre dans le paquet d'Etienne mais dans
l'incertitude que la diligence partira ou ne partira pas car le
rhone a beaucoup grossi cette nuit il inonde les [rues?] les brotteaux
je la mets à la poste
Ed Frachon
Lyon 17 nov. 1840.

Documentary page 2

English translation

My very dear mother
I hasten to send you these two letters which will give you
I do not doubt much pleasure I think that you will not hesitate
to give your consent, for I find this position very
advantageous for a beginning, it remains to be seen if it is
a firm that is doing well and where he can have the hope of advancing
which should be easy. Cousin Pirot who must know it
would not have advised him to enter it. I wait with impatience
for news of father you are late this time in giving me some
I wrote today to François
farewell I kiss you very strongly and beg you not to forget me
to sister and father
Your son who loves you tenderly
I would have put this letter in Etienne's package but in
the uncertainty that the diligence will leave or will not leave because the
Rhône has swollen a lot this night it floods the [streets?] the Brotteaux
I am putting it in the mail
Ed Frachon
Lyon 17 Nov. 1840.

Discovery Terms

Family correspondence
Employment
Floods
Rhône River
Les Brotteaux
Frachon Family Correspondence

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