Letter

 1 XVIII   |           me; but one changes from year to year. Age gives unceasingly
 2 XVIII   |           one changes from year to year. Age gives unceasingly another
 3 XXIV    |        buried tomorrow. He was one year older than I am. My generation
 4 XXVIII  |          long since of going every year to his house; he has a delicious
 5 LIV     |         you come to our house this year, I am charged to tell you
 6 LVII    |         him four thousand francs a year and lodging. He now need
 7 LX      |       taken possession of him this year; he discovers marvels. Embrace
 8 LXIX    |           at not seeing you, FOR A YEAR.~Your old troubadour~
 9 LXXIV   |         not go until after the New Year. My children have made me
10 LXXVI   |          embrace each other on New Year’s day: on the contrary,
11 LXXXVIII|         resting. It will take me a year to finish the book. After
12 XCVII   |         lot of oxen. I hope on New Year’s Day not to have over a
13 CI      |         Why should I not begin the year of 1869 in wishing to you
14 CI      |            and to yours “Happy New Year and many of them”? It is
15 CI      |           have reached my fiftieth year, and it is not their ardor
16 CIV     |           thirty thousand francs a year income, one owes him some
17 CV      |           thirty thousand francs a year. It is so easy to do without
18 CVII    |           thirty thousand francs a year. But there is something
19 CXXX    |          being postponed till next year, which I’ll do if you want
20 CXXXI   |         not be presented till next year.~Then, it is agreed, since
21 CXL     |           escape from Paris on New Year’s day; it is so boring there
22 CXLII   |          some more follies for New Year’s day, and for Twelfth Night.
23 CXLII   |            am finishing tonight my year’s task. Seeing you, dear
24 CXLIII  |       adore one another. It is New Year’s Eve. We send your share
25 CLXV    |         little business the entire year, of the hunt during vacation
26 CLXVIII |      succession of deaths during a year! I am as dazed by them as
27 CLXVIII |           us than life has?~What a year of evil! I feel as if I
28 CXCIX   |         have shown within the last year what they can accomplish: (
29 CCVI    |            you at the first of the year and tell you that I love
30 CCXLI   |        Paris for six months of the year: so it is impossible for
31 CCXLIV  |       never tells us until after a year or two if a book has SOLD.
32 CCXLVII |         today upon my fifty-second year, and I insist on embracing
33 CCXLVIII|          you six times for the New Year.~
34 CCLIX   |         shall not begin for a full year.~Do you know where the great
35 CCLX    | congratulations on your seventieth year, which seems more robust
36 CCLXII  |            would like to produce a year from now. I don’t think
37 CCLXVI  |          my wishes for a Happy New Year!~This is what is happening
38 CCLXVII |        having written to me on New Year’s day. All Nohant loves
39 CCLXXIX |          le Sexe faible that, last year, Carvalho was so enthusiastic
40 CCLXXXI |         believes in medicine. Last year he went to the baths at
41 CCLXXXVI|             embrace you at the New Year, and wish that you may have
42 CCLXXXIX|          Spring is so peevish this year! At last the pale sun will
43 CCCII   |            beautiful sights of the year!~It appears that I am not
44 CCCXVII |            doing. This is it: this year I have written two stories,
45 CCCXVII |          novel that I laid aside a year ago after my financial disaster.
46 CCCXVII |           shall stay here till New Year’s Day,—perhaps later than