LETTERS
TO
MADAME HANSKA
BORN COUNTESS RZEWUSKA
AFTERWARDS MADAME HONORÉ DE BALZAC
1833-1846
By
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
TRANSLATED BY KATHARINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY
HARDY, PRATT AND COMPANY
3 SOMERSET STREET
BOSTON
1900
CONTENTS.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
LETTERS:
| I. | LETTERS DURING 1833 | 1 | |
| II. | LETTERS DURING 1834 | 105 | |
| III. | LETTERS DURING 1835 | 232 | |
| IV. | LETTERS DURING 1836 | 298 | |
| V. | LETTERS DURING 1837 | 383 | |
| VI. | LETTERS DURING 1838 | 469 | |
| VII. | LETTERS DURING 1839, 1840, 1841 | 528 | |
| VIII. | LETTERS DURING 1843, 1844, 1845 | 601 | |
| IX. | LETTERS DURING 1846 | 693 |
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
In 1876 M. Calmann Lévy published Balzac's Correspondence in thetwenty-fourth volume of the Édition Définitive of his works. Theseletters are prefaced by a short memoir written by his sister Laure,Madame Surville, which she had already published in 1856, six yearsafter her brother's death, under the title of "Balzac, sa vie et sesécrits, d'après sa correspondance."
In this Correspondence given in the Édition Définitive, the firstletter addressed by Balzac to Madame Hanska is dated August 11, 1835,and to it is appended the following footnote:—
"At this period Balzac was, and had been for some time,in correspondence with the distinguished woman to whom hewas later to give his name; but, unfortunately, a part ofthis correspondence was burned in Moscow in a fire whichoccurred at Madame Hanska's residence. It must, therefore,be remarked that in the letters of
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