Open handwritten notebooks and old black and white family photographs spread across a rust and sand coloured table
RNo. 11, Winter 2026
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A quarterly of private letters

Four notebooks,one Marseille kitchen,1928 to 1931.

Odette Ferrand wrote to her daughter every Sunday for three years. We transcribed all 212 pages, translated them, and then went looking for the house.

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  1. p. 14Her recipe for panisse, in her hand, with two crossings-out
  2. p. 52Who is the man in the third photograph? Readers wrote in
  3. p. 96How to read cursive from 1929: a short, patient guide

43°17′47″N 5°22′49″ERue d'Aubagne, MarseilleNotebook 2, p. 41Ferrand family archive