a superfluous correspondence

My Dear Madame,

I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; Please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter.

P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

- Marcel Proust to Princesse Clermote- Tonnerre


Oh, to be forgetful and have bearers of letters. To receive and send such niceties. Thanks to the prodigious Maira Kalman and the chalkboard wall at her Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) that just closed at the Jewish Museum, where I found this.