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256 - MERMOZ, Jean
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MERMOZ, Jean Autograph letter signed “Jean,” Toulouse, Saturday [April 1933], to his “Beloved Mother”; 3½ pages, in-8. He’s leaving again the next day “for Casa. The official test commission arrives tomorrow in Toulouse and will be in Perpignan on Tuesday. Daurat asked me to take over the transatlantic mail route again. Things are going badly—the pilots are young, there are crashes… and naturally, Mermoz is in for a rough ride. Anyway, I can’t refuse him, and besides, time passes more quickly that way. Anyway, next week is going to be a busy one… I’ve had enough of it.” He is glad that his mother is feeling better and advises her to start walking slowly again… He received “a gold medal for cigarettes from Buenos Aires. I’m thinking of opening a tobacco shop where Gilberte will be the cashier.” He hasn’t heard from Pauvert… Source: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936); - Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955); - Then passed down through the family
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