“By working hard, I have come to detest the correspondence business,” but he will incessantly have the books delivered to him. He will examine the work of Pen'masc'h (Jules François Marie Duplessis Kergomard, known as Gustave de Penmarch).
He recalls that Houssaye (Arsène Houssaye with whom he co-directed La Revue de Paris) would have wanted to make the magazine “a second edition of L'Artiste,” but he never wanted that. Regarding Charles Alexandre's work, he tells him to do as he pleases: “You must know better than I what suits your talent.” He hopes to see him in Paris. He cannot proceed with a publication by Jean-Marie Dargaud: “We currently have in hand: The Peasants of Balzac, a long novel by Kauffmann (an editor at Le Censeur), The Devil in the Fields by G. That we will be forced to publish.
” He will give his letter to their next music critic, as they had to part ways with?