This is inventory presently on my studio shelf, a volume of The Selected Letters of Eugene Delacroix is on my library shelf.
About Delacroix's letter writing, I will give you a sample of the enormously varied closings:
Farewell, ever yours * Please accept my renewed thanks * Goodbye, my dear good fellow * Goodbye, a thousand embraces and write to me * Farewell,farewell * I take my leave of you, thanking you once again for your letter and assuring you of my sincere affection * Remember me affectionately * I clasp your hand with true gratitude * All my sincerest thanks and friendly regards * I have only room left to tell you that I shall always love you.
I find him to be genuine, warm, and intelligent. "For in letters," Delacroix wrote, "a man stands revealed."
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