In these three letters, Marcel Proust, with the help of Elena Baevskaya, appears in a new role for the Russian reader - the role of a translator. We get acquainted, of course, not with the translations themselves, but with the reflections and doubts of M. Proust, who translated the famous work of art critic John Ruskin “Sesame and Lilies” on the eve of the main work of his life - “In Search of Lost Time.”