Letter from Mrs. Martin CF 77
To his brother Isidore Guérin
January 6, 1872.
I went to Le Mans on Friday to pick up my daughters; the aunt and the mistresses are very happy with it. Marie is an excellent student; Pauline learns everything she wants and applies herself a lot; she is the most advanced of the children of her age: she is only eleven years old and there are fourteen years below her. One day when Marie was talking to him during study, she said to him: “Let's not waste our time, because it's Papa's and Mama's money. “They do us both honor.
Yesterday I saw Mrs. Tifenne (Léonie Gilbert, Léonie's godmother), who was very kind. She told me a lot about you and seems to take a great interest in you. She was supposed to come today to visit me and bring me Léonie's New Year's gifts, because she knows how much I don't like going to her house, at that time, as if to look for them. So I didn't take Léonie to her.
My sister is deeply saddened by you; your wife is so tried by her health, that it saddens us all.
I told you about a leftover account my father owed on the house he had built. We believed that the entrepreneur didn't want it because we had offered it to him many times, without getting an answer. My father had refused to pay it, saying that the contractor was charging him too much, and he wanted to have an expert's report done first.
Well ! this man came to ask us for this two weeks ago. Of course, we paid it as well as the interest on this sum which had not been paid for eight years. My husband said to me: "I don't want Isidore to pay his share, he has done too well towards you." I'm telling you this to show you how good Louis is.
