Mary CASSATT (1841-1926). 7 L.A.S., Bachivillers then Septeuil [1891-1892] and s.d., to Albert Bartholomé 19 pages in-8 or in-12 (2 cards), one with Japanese decoration. Interesting artistic correspondence to the sculptor Bartholomé. Bachivillers by Chaumont-en-Vexin [late 1891]. She has gone to Paris to find a new cook. Her father is no better [he died on 9 December 1891]. "As for me, I've been working on a painting for six weeks now, but I've had to give up because the weather has been so bad for plein air painting! Leroy is decorated with the purple ribbon! It's impossible to imagine a happier man, and he writes to me saying that he owes this honour to my "great contribution". If you see Mr Raffaëlli, will you thank him for me? She hoped that Degas and she were doing well and that they would be able to take some time off. She has already told Mrs. Havemeyer "that her paintings will soon be in America" .... - October 1892]. She asked Bartholomé for the favour of lending her [an easel?] "so that I can finish my few kilometres of painting". The weather was very bad, so she had a stove installed; "fortunately my mother loves the countryside as much as I do". They saw no one except Pissarro, with his "terrible son, his wife and his daughter-in-law. Pissarro complimented me on "my courage"? I hope you've been working hard, because after all, that's happiness. She didn't dare ask him to come with Degas: "I need all my 'courage' and he has a way of applauding me that I can't stand at the moment"... - She knew about Mr Koechlin's property and had often wished, when passing in front of his gate, that it was for rent: "There's even a studio! She asked if Bartholomé was living in Paris "in these cholera times", and hoped for his next visit to Bachivillers "when you have a moment's respite from your work"... Septeuil on Thursday. It rained so hard that she was unable to invite him to come and see her "with Monsieur Degas. [Impossible to work since we've been here, I'm in despair". Her brother is coming from New York with his children to see them next week, and she would like Bartholomé to give her the pleasure of coming one day soon with Degas, if he has not already left for Cauterets... She regrets not seeing Madeleine Lemaire's name among the nominations for the Légion d'Honneur. She has recovered from her fall; the horse she hired fell and damaged her knee the first time the coachman took it out... Monday. She never received her letter which, like the one she wrote to Madame Dreyfus [she painted his portrait], got lost, because "the post is not well done in Septeuil". She spent much more time in Paris than she wanted, without having time to go and see Bartholomé. "I found out from Durand-Ruel that Degas was in Cauterets and also, which made me very sad, that poor John Lewis Brown was at his wits' end. Has Degas had any good news from Fèvre [his brother-in-law, the architect Henri Fèvre, in Argentina], he must have been worried amid all this talk of revolution. I hope you've worked well; I wish I could say the same, no I can't say I haven't worked because I work all day, but the results! Invitation to dinner with the Lerolles. - Another invitation to dinner, with his cousin and her husband, regretting not having the Jeanniot's "in view of the illustrations affair"...