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1. Pleasures and Days (1894-1896)

Here Proust urges Hahn to read his new story “Dinner in Town,” which was eventually included in Pleasures and Days. He wants Hahn to casually mention it in a letter to Madeleine Lemaire, without being “too obvious.” Proust believed Lemaire’s delay in finishing her drawings was setting back publication of the book. He signs, “Your little Marcel.”

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Marcel Proust, Letter to Reynaldo Hahn, [May? 1895]. b 94M-48 (85), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Gift, Mrs. Bradley Martin, 1994.
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