141. "What a poor big country ZOLA (Émile). Autograph letter signed Z to Margueritte Charpentier. [London], Thursday, April 20 [18]99, 4 pages in-8, center fold. "I am far from optimistic, I am more or less convinced that the revision will be rejected"... "I am ready to do my duty duty to the end, whatever it may be"... "I only suffer from the dispatches from France, which, every morning, bring me new monstrosities. What a poor great country, and how we must love it.