Letter 159 — CLIX
Original French
Le 20 janvier 1810.
Je t’envoie, mon amie, la boîte que je t’avais promise avant-hier, et qui représente l’île de Lobau. J’ai été un peu fatigué hier. Je travaille beaucoup et ne sors pas. Adieu, mon amie.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean English translated from the French of the 172 Napoleon letters selected from Tancrède Martel, ed., Œuvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte, tome 1 (Albert Savine, Paris, 1888). French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The transcription is CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; this adapted text and translations are shared under the same license. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes; selected transcription repairs were checked against print images.
January 20, 1810.
I am sending you, my friend, the box I promised you the day before yesterday, which depicts the island of Lobau. I was a little tired yesterday. I work a great deal and do not go out. Farewell, my friend.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation from the 1888 Martel French edition, not a historical English translation. French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The adapted transcription and translation are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes and makes documented transcription repairs. French-source model review is not human specialist certification or a complete scan collation.
January 20, 1810.
My dear, I am sending you the box I promised you the day before yesterday, with a picture of Lobau Island on it. I was a little tired yesterday. I am working a great deal and do not go out. Goodbye, my dear.
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