GE Journal, London, 23 January 1869
Title
GE Journal, London, 23 January 1869
Title
GE Journal, London, 23 January 1869
Sender
Ge Journal
Recipient
U
Date(s)
- 1869-01-23
Place
London
Letter Content
GE Journal, London, 23 January 1869
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, III, 76-77.
January 23.
Since I wrote last 9 I have finished a little poem on Old Agatha. But the last week or two I have been so disturbed in health that no work prospers. I have made a little way in constructing my new Tale, have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th Book of the Iliad, the first book of the [Faery Queene,] Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs. Grey and Dennis. 10 Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's Speeches, which I am still reading -- besides the first four cantos of Don Juan. But the last two or three days I have seemed to live under a leaden pressure -- all movement mental or bodily is grievous to me.
In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the Spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory and "double life." 11 In the Revue des Cours, a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis. 12
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, III, 76-77.
January 23.
Since I wrote last 9 I have finished a little poem on Old Agatha. But the last week or two I have been so disturbed in health that no work prospers. I have made a little way in constructing my new Tale, have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th Book of the Iliad, the first book of the [Faery Queene,] Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs. Grey and Dennis. 10 Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's Speeches, which I am still reading -- besides the first four cantos of Don Juan. But the last two or three days I have seemed to live under a leaden pressure -- all movement mental or bodily is grievous to me.
In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the Spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory and "double life." 11 In the Revue des Cours, a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis. 12
Citation
Ge Journal, GE Journal, London, 23 January 1869, 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/91914