GE Journal, London, 25 December 1875
Title
GE Journal, London, 25 December 1875
Title
GE Journal, London, 25 December 1875
Sender
Ge Journal
Recipient
U
Date(s)
- 1875-12-25
Place
London
Letter Content
GE Journal, London, 25 December 1875
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 269-270.
June 15 or 17 we went to a house we had taken at Rickmansworth. Here in the end of July we received the news that our dear Bertie had died on June 29th. Our stay at Rickmansworth, though otherwise peaceful was not marked by any great improvement in health from the change to country instead of town -- rather the contrary. We left on September 23 and then set off on a journey into Wales which was altogether unfortunate on account of the incessant rain. After our return I grew better and wrote with some success -- G. worse, and consequently he consulted Dr. Reynolds, whose prescriptions seem to have answered so that he has recovered his usual power of enjoying work.
For the last three weeks, however I have been suffering from a cold and its effects so as to be unable to make any progress. Meanwhile, the 2 first volumes of Daniel Deronda are in print and the first Book is to be published on February 1. -- I have thought very poorly of it myself throughout, but George and the Blackwoods are full of satisfaction in it. Each part as I see it before me im Werden seems less likely to be anything else than a failure, but I see on looking back this morning -- Christmas Day -- that I really was in worse health and suffered equal depression about Romola -- and so far as I have recorded, the same thing seems to be true of Middlemarch.
I have finished the Vth Book, but am not so far on in the VIth as I hoped to have been, the oppression under which I have been labouring having positively suspended my power of writing anything that I could feel satisfaction in.
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 269-270.
June 15 or 17 we went to a house we had taken at Rickmansworth. Here in the end of July we received the news that our dear Bertie had died on June 29th. Our stay at Rickmansworth, though otherwise peaceful was not marked by any great improvement in health from the change to country instead of town -- rather the contrary. We left on September 23 and then set off on a journey into Wales which was altogether unfortunate on account of the incessant rain. After our return I grew better and wrote with some success -- G. worse, and consequently he consulted Dr. Reynolds, whose prescriptions seem to have answered so that he has recovered his usual power of enjoying work.
For the last three weeks, however I have been suffering from a cold and its effects so as to be unable to make any progress. Meanwhile, the 2 first volumes of Daniel Deronda are in print and the first Book is to be published on February 1. -- I have thought very poorly of it myself throughout, but George and the Blackwoods are full of satisfaction in it. Each part as I see it before me im Werden seems less likely to be anything else than a failure, but I see on looking back this morning -- Christmas Day -- that I really was in worse health and suffered equal depression about Romola -- and so far as I have recorded, the same thing seems to be true of Middlemarch.
I have finished the Vth Book, but am not so far on in the VIth as I hoped to have been, the oppression under which I have been labouring having positively suspended my power of writing anything that I could feel satisfaction in.
Citation
Ge Journal, GE Journal, London, 25 December 1875, 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/91917