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Karlovicz says, with some exaggeration: "In his letters to his family, Chopin, as if he wished to avoid pronouncing the name of George Sand, always calls her 'My hostess, sometimes even employing, strange to say, the plural, for instance, 'Elles si chères, elles rirent pour tous, or, 'Here the vigil is sad, because les malades do not wish a doctor."
Chopin's portrait by Ary Scheffer, his piano, and his Paris furniture perished, and his papers were believed to be among the lost. But all the while the family was keeping their very existence secret until, after forty years, it was thought proper to give them to the public. M. Karlovicz was entrusted with this honour, and La Revue Musicale of Paris chosen as the medium.
Karlovicz mentions the existence of a despairing letter in which Chopin called his sister Louise to Paris where he was dying; she came in 1849, with her husband and daughter, and remained till the end, giving him the last tendernesses in her power. This is all I have gleaned from Karlovicz.
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