. Emile Zola; a biographical and critical study . England, after the publica-tion of Xana, it is interesting to read this letter,which shows him working in solitude down atMcdan, with no other preoccupation than to be ableto tell the strictest truth in the book that he isMTiting. Medan, December 16, 1879. . Your plans are excellent. Only try to getthe information I have asked for without having togive yourself so much trouble. With regard to thedeath-mask, if you cannot procure a photograph ofa woman who died under the conditions indicated,just send me a very precise and very technicaldescript
. Emile Zola; a biographical and critical study . England, after the publica-tion of Xana, it is interesting to read this letter,which shows him working in solitude down atMcdan, with no other preoccupation than to be ableto tell the strictest truth in the book that he isMTiting. Medan, December 16, 1879. . Your plans are excellent. Only try to getthe information I have asked for without having togive yourself so much trouble. With regard to thedeath-mask, if you cannot procure a photograph ofa woman who died under the conditions indicated,just send me a very precise and very technicaldescription of the appearance, and I will work it repeat that I shant need it for from eight to tendays. If the thaw continues I shall go to Paris, butlet us act in the meanwhile as though we were notto meet. . Xana disgusts me in the Voltaire, andI would give a good deal to see its publication inthat journal ended. The last chapters are comingout very well. No matter; I have not the least ideawhat this book mav be worth. Never have I been. M. Zola in his Working Dress. UNE FA GE HAMO UR— NAKA 169 SO worried, never have I so anxiously desired tojudge of the whole effect \leffet cVensemble] of oneof my books. You will have to tell me very franklywhat you think of it. There seems to have been some difficulty in pro-curing the scientific particulars necessary for thedescription of poor Gervaises daughter on her death-bed. On the 18th of the same month Zola writes^o-ain :— o . . I have received your book on that will be enough for my purpose. Iwill invent the death-mask by a comparison of thevarious documents. I am very much tempted tomake it black small-j^ox, which, in point of horror,is the most original. Only I will confess that if you•could manage to see a corpse of a person who diedof this disease without taking too much trouble—Isay, this is a nice little job!—you would oblige megreatly. In that way I should not have to inventanything—I should ha
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