From Mme Guérin to Mme La Néele. April 28, 1897.
My dear little Jeanne,
I have just received your little letter and as Marie gave me a missive for you, I also want to add a few lines to it. You continue to get better, which makes us very happy. Paul (Paul Guesdon, protege of the Guérins, and minor seminarian in Lisieux) tells me, however, that you still cough a little and that your voice is still a little dull. I urge you to avoid going in an open car until you are completely cured. The two cousins (first cousins of Mr. Guérin and Mrs. Martin, the sisters Alphonsine and Marie-Marguerite Macé indeed passed through Lisieux on April 29 / May 1897, 1884), the nun and her sister Alphonsine wrote to us yesterday that they would arrive tomorrow [lv°] Thursday by the four o'clock train, if we could accommodate them. So here is their advanced eight-day trip and tomorrow we receive them. I believe they will leave on Saturday morning. Right now I'm having my house cleaned from top to bottom, it's not out of glory, because I've been sick for more than two months, she needed it badly, so I have two day women, Berthe and Célestine . Luckily that won't last. I saw Marie today, she is fine. Thérèse is still very ill. She had her blister yesterday. Dr. de Cornière sees her ill. She coughs up blood in the morning. We fear that it will become very serious, her sisters do not know what praise to make of her. He's a real little angel. Marie told me, after you however, the marriage of Joseph Dupont with Marie Domin (niece of the chaplain of the Benedictines, was companion of first and second communion of Thérèse (1885 and 2). You were right but we were all surprised. Your dad is fine, and I really feel much stronger for two or three days. I saw Marguerite Tostain who was in Lisieux for a very short time on her way back from the wedding. She has a cold too. I think that Léonie will be able to go [XNUMXv°] to Caen with you on Monday unless there is an unforeseen impediment.
See you soon, my darling, but don't come on Sunday unless you are well cured. We all embrace you wholeheartedly as well as your husband, rejoicing in the happiness of seeing you soon. Would you like to bring us the account of what we owe you and what Francis paid for us at Le Chesne so that your dad can settle his accounts, then 1 k° of chocolate already requested for mom.
Your mother
C. Guerin
Regards to Madame Mouton.
[2v°tv] Paul arrived in good health and had a little supper before returning to the seminary.
