about his sons Lucien and Georges, discussing where they might live, mentioning Menton and Morocco, explaining how difficult it would be to live there, noting that he has a cold at the moment and cannot work, discussing a letter from Georges' doctor, passing on his advice that he thought it was not necessary for him to leave England, adding that he hopes to be finished here around the beginning of November as he is running low on cash, and enclosing a letter of Lucien's [not contained here] ("...Malheureusement je suis enrhumé en ce moment et ne puis travailler...")
4 pages, small 8vo (158 x 101mm.), Rouen, Hotel d'Angleterre, 25 October 1896