GE to Charles Bray, Broadstairs, [14 July 1852]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, Broadstairs, [14 July 1852]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, Broadstairs, [14 July 1852]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Bray
Date(s)
- 1852-07-14
Place
Broadstairs
Letter Content
GE to Charles Bray, Broadstairs, [14 July 1852]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: July 12. 1852. Extract published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 62.
Wednesday.
Dear Friend
When I wrote to you yesterday I promised myself that I would send you a better edition of my thoughts and feelings about you today.
It is a thousand pities that you and Cara have given up coming here. After Tenby, this is the nicest sea place I have seen -- so quiet and full of natural beauty. I saw Miss Field on Monday, and am to take tea with her to-morrow. She is very intimate with the Sharps, 139 intelligent Unitarians, who are here in a pleasant cottage. Mr. Sharp is the brother of Saml Sharp, 140 the historian of Egypt, an odd fish but a clever.
Mr. Chapman wrote me word yesterday that he was going to you a second time to [explain his explanation.] 141 I trust your benevolence and fellow-feeling, or rather your sense of the importance, on other grounds than personal ones, that his position should be maintained will enable you to bear these visitations with patience. Of course, I am in great anxiety about him, and what is worse, I can do nothing. I have had a letter from Geo. Combe today containing the same hopeless opinion as the one you forwarded to me. I am surprized that you and he think so ill of Mr. C's affairs. My impression was that the business was in a thoroughly promising condition apart from the need of temporary assistance in capital.
Thank Sara for her note. I will write to her in a day or two, but I am sadly behind now with sundry readings and letters which have accumulated for the last few days.
Perhaps you and Cara will yet think better of it and come. Do. If nothing happens to oblige me to return to London I think of staying here longer than a month -- probably till after August. Now August will be the best month for you to come. Perpend.
My nice, kind, blue-eyed landlady sprained her ancle the other day and has been obliged to keep her bed ever since. I like her and my lodgings vastly. Now pray forgive me all my sins of omission and commission -- even if you are quite clear that you are immaculate and that I have nothing to forgive in you. It must be so easy to forgive when one is conscious of being all in the right. I confess I have never known that luxury -- for I am your faulty but affectionate Friend
Marian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: July 12. 1852. Extract published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 62.
Wednesday.
Dear Friend
When I wrote to you yesterday I promised myself that I would send you a better edition of my thoughts and feelings about you today.
It is a thousand pities that you and Cara have given up coming here. After Tenby, this is the nicest sea place I have seen -- so quiet and full of natural beauty. I saw Miss Field on Monday, and am to take tea with her to-morrow. She is very intimate with the Sharps, 139 intelligent Unitarians, who are here in a pleasant cottage. Mr. Sharp is the brother of Saml Sharp, 140 the historian of Egypt, an odd fish but a clever.
Mr. Chapman wrote me word yesterday that he was going to you a second time to [explain his explanation.] 141 I trust your benevolence and fellow-feeling, or rather your sense of the importance, on other grounds than personal ones, that his position should be maintained will enable you to bear these visitations with patience. Of course, I am in great anxiety about him, and what is worse, I can do nothing. I have had a letter from Geo. Combe today containing the same hopeless opinion as the one you forwarded to me. I am surprized that you and he think so ill of Mr. C's affairs. My impression was that the business was in a thoroughly promising condition apart from the need of temporary assistance in capital.
Thank Sara for her note. I will write to her in a day or two, but I am sadly behind now with sundry readings and letters which have accumulated for the last few days.
Perhaps you and Cara will yet think better of it and come. Do. If nothing happens to oblige me to return to London I think of staying here longer than a month -- probably till after August. Now August will be the best month for you to come. Perpend.
My nice, kind, blue-eyed landlady sprained her ancle the other day and has been obliged to keep her bed ever since. I like her and my lodgings vastly. Now pray forgive me all my sins of omission and commission -- even if you are quite clear that you are immaculate and that I have nothing to forgive in you. It must be so easy to forgive when one is conscious of being all in the right. I confess I have never known that luxury -- for I am your faulty but affectionate Friend
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Bray, Broadstairs, [14 July 1852], 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/92104