Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 23 March 1879
Title
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 23 March 1879
Title
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 23 March 1879
Sender
Edith Simcox
Recipient
U
Date(s)
- 1879-03-23
Place
London
Letter Content
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 23 March 1879
MS: Bodleian.
Sunday 23 March 1879
On Friday as I was going there, I met Charles coming away and turned and went with him to the station. She has sent to the printer the first "Problem" -- about 200 pages, and is going to publish them in that way singly, not in large volumes. He rather negatived her being discouraged, but said it was well that it should be out of her hands, otherwise she only read it through and through, wondering if it was yet complete. He said she was always much exhausted after seeing anyone and he never went himself the day anyone else did: also that she had been much interested in arranging for a memorial endowment at Cambridge, about which she had been seeing two or 3 people, -- Sidgwick, Foster, etc., besides Johnny about changing investments -- it was such a comfort being able to trust that to him as both a friend and so excellent a man of business. She is going to try living at Witley this summer, and let it if she cannot bear it. I fear whether she will, since the only idea of breaking her loneliness is that "Gertrude and the children should stay there for a week at a time." Elma is still a difficulty to me -- to know how to help a mind so ingenious in remembering things its own way.
MS: Bodleian.
Sunday 23 March 1879
On Friday as I was going there, I met Charles coming away and turned and went with him to the station. She has sent to the printer the first "Problem" -- about 200 pages, and is going to publish them in that way singly, not in large volumes. He rather negatived her being discouraged, but said it was well that it should be out of her hands, otherwise she only read it through and through, wondering if it was yet complete. He said she was always much exhausted after seeing anyone and he never went himself the day anyone else did: also that she had been much interested in arranging for a memorial endowment at Cambridge, about which she had been seeing two or 3 people, -- Sidgwick, Foster, etc., besides Johnny about changing investments -- it was such a comfort being able to trust that to him as both a friend and so excellent a man of business. She is going to try living at Witley this summer, and let it if she cannot bear it. I fear whether she will, since the only idea of breaking her loneliness is that "Gertrude and the children should stay there for a week at a time." Elma is still a difficulty to me -- to know how to help a mind so ingenious in remembering things its own way.
Citation
Edith Simcox, Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 23 March 1879, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91789