I. TO GEORGE SAND 1863
Dear Madam,
I am not grateful to you for having performed what you call a duty. The goodness of your heart has touched me and your sympathy has made me proud. That is the whole of it.
Your letter which I have just received gives added value to your article [Footnote: Letter about Salammbo, January, 1863, Questions d’art et de litterature.] and goes on still further, and I do not know what to say to you unless it be that I QUITE FRANKLY LIKE YOU.
It was certainly not I who sent you in September, a little flower in an envelope. But, strange to say, at the same time, I received in the