Excerpt from Letters to Madame Hanska: Born Countess Rzewuska, Afterwards Madame Honoré De Balzac, 1833-1846 The affair of the 'etudes de Mwars 18 well under way; thirty thousand francs of author's rights in the reprints will stop up large holes. That slice Of my debts paid, I Shall go and seek my reward at Geneva. The horizon seems really brightening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.