Édouard MANET (1832–1883) Autograph letter, Rueil, Tuesday [1882?], to Méry LAURENT; 1½ pages, in-8. He was about to write to his “dear Mery […] a letter full of reproaches—I even thought for a moment that you were traveling. I forgot that friendship comes second, and that’s quite fair. The countryside does me good; I’m feeling better than when I left Paris.” He wishes her a safe journey, with “a good steward”…. [Manet left behind several portraits of Méry Laurent.]