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MERMOZ Jean
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MERMOZ Jean
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
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MERMOZ Jean
L.A.S. ‘Ton Jean’, Casablanca, 29 January 1927, to his ‘Maman chérie’; 2 pages, in-4, in blue ink on Lignes Aériennes Latécoère letterhead.
He will send her some money, “but I haven’t received my monthly pay yet. Apparently, the company is giving me 1,200 francs as a New Year’s bonus and a 200-franc increase to my basic salary. So, I’ll send you all my savings […] I haven’t sold my car yet. The American route officially opens in July. So, I’m making the most of it until April. Unless I come across a brilliant opportunity to get rid of it at an unbeatable price. But I go on such lovely drives in it! The other day I went to Meknès with Étienne to see Coursault’, whose wife is very ill and terminally ill. “He’s aged ten years, with white hair, and as thin as a rake. He wept in front of me and regretted not having followed both our advice. […] I had the hardest time in the world persuading him to submit a claim to the company, which I’m handling. I can’t understand why people don’t have any more energy than that. [...] I’m planning to take a proper holiday in April before heading further south. In the event of a delay in the opening or other developments (as it remains to be seen who will arrive first, the Germans or us!), I’ll still take ten days off in April, come what may.’ He’s leaving for Dakar the next day…
Correspondence, no. 103.
Source: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936);
- Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955);
- Then passed down through the family
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