August, 18
“They have owed me since September and you since April of this year. I am sorry to put the complaint to Her Majesty, because I am sure it will upset her and, undoubtedly, would cause some employees to lose their jobs on seeing the injustice done to me […]. I am providing a service more important and more exposed, because as you already know, on the 22nd of last month, how they did not cut my throat was a miracle, and this for being at the side of Her Majesty.” (Letter to Manuel José Miura, July 23 1866, in EC II, p. 1030).
RISKING LIFE
Claret shows in this passage a great realism and exquisite social sensitivity, along with the awareness (more…)