142. Flaubert, Nana, L 'Assomoir, Goncourt, Tourguenieff... ZOLA (Émile). Autograph letter signed Émile Zola to Gustave Flaubert. Médan, November 30 [18]78, 4 pages on laid paper, presented in a black morocco long-grain black morocco slipcase, title on the first Zola in gilt lettering on spine. "Precisely, my dear Flaubert, I was about to write to you to ask news from you, when I received your kind letter. good letter. I knew from Maupassant, who came to stay with me with his young men, that your health was good...". your health was good..." "Nana is progressing well, but slowly. chapters out of sixteen... My ambition is to show how whores cook of whores, quietly, paternally..." "As for the drama of L'Assomoir, I don't think it'll be ready before the middle of January. before the middle of January, we'll end up taking the first woman woman who comes along..." "No news from Goncourt, Tourguenieff or Daudet..." An exceptional literary letter. From the collection of Edmond Laporte, a close friend of Flaubert, with ex-libris stamp.