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200 - MERMOZ, Jean
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MERMOZ, Jean L.A.S. “Jean,” [Buenos Aires], January 8, [1930], to his “Dearest Mom”; 3 pages, in-8 format, on Via Aéropostale paper. He is set to board “the Lutetia on January 24” and will arrive in Bordeaux around February 8; he looks forward to hugging his mother. “I’ll have very few days off because I’ve been called upon to attempt the first commercial crossings of the South Atlantic while a plane is being prepared for the raid. In any case, I’m being replaced for seven months in Buenos Aires. And I’ll have three or four months of leave once my expedition is over.” His fiancée Gilberte will return in April with her parents: “Naturally, the impending separation saddens us both. But one must pay the price for happiness”… Source: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936); - Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955); - Then passed down through the family
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