L.A.S. "E. Delacroix", October 5, to a countess; 1 and a half pages in-8:
"When I received your recommendation it was already late because all the lists had been drawn up: I was not going to the jury myself being forced to keep the room because of a cold I caught in these damp rooms. You need to know the rest, to console your protégé in case he was not put on the lists in my absence, that there are so many people to reward, and relatively few rewards, that it takes not only a lot of merit, but a lot of support, to be successful"....
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