GE to Charles Bray, Dover, 4 April 1855
Title
GE to Charles Bray, Dover, 4 April 1855
Title
GE to Charles Bray, Dover, 4 April 1855
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Bray
Date(s)
- 1855-04-04
Place
Dover
Letter Content
GE to Charles Bray, Dover, 4 April 1855
MS: Parrish Collection. Princeton. Hitherto unpublished.
Sydney Place, Dover | April 4, 1855.
Dear Friend
Your letters rival in curtness those of H. M. the Duke, so on the principle that people should return precisely the salutation they receive, I suppose I must be brief too.
Such a conjunction as the war 582 and the extreme severity of the winter must have been terrible indeed for the Coventry trade. And the weather will not get warm, that the ladies might be obliged to throw off their rusty bonnets! I am very anxious to know that you have had no loss which will materially affect your comfort.
My half year's income is due at the beginning of June and the beginning of December. I shall be much obliged to you if you will say what is necessary to the Bank, before the first of those periods, and also if you will tell me how to frame my order for the payment of the money to me in London, when I am there. I suppose they will pay it into a London Bank, and I must call for it? I should not like to make a simpleton of myself to Messieurs les banquiers, and my ignorance particularly well qualifies me for doing so. I wrote to my brother to ask him always to pay my income into the Cov[entry] and War[wickshire] Bank, but as he is not precise in answering letters (mine at least) it is difficult to know what he will do.
Mr. Lewes is gone to Arthur Helps's at Vernon Hill for a week or ten days, and on his return I shall join him in London where -- that is, in the environs -- we shall establish ourselves till the big books 583 are fairly through the press, when I hope our wings will be plumed for a new flight to the south of Germany and Italy, for which we both yearn.
Poor Mr. Chapman's illness makes me fear that he really has the radical delicacy of constitution which we used to suspect in old days. And the burthen of business upon him! It is sad to think of.
Good night and love to you all from
Yours ever affectionately
Marian Evans.
Tell Sara I claim her commiseration for the frightful printer's errors in my article in the Westminster 584 which, this first sheet, at least, Mr. C. sent to the press without my seeing it.
MS: Parrish Collection. Princeton. Hitherto unpublished.
Sydney Place, Dover | April 4, 1855.
Dear Friend
Your letters rival in curtness those of H. M. the Duke, so on the principle that people should return precisely the salutation they receive, I suppose I must be brief too.
Such a conjunction as the war 582 and the extreme severity of the winter must have been terrible indeed for the Coventry trade. And the weather will not get warm, that the ladies might be obliged to throw off their rusty bonnets! I am very anxious to know that you have had no loss which will materially affect your comfort.
My half year's income is due at the beginning of June and the beginning of December. I shall be much obliged to you if you will say what is necessary to the Bank, before the first of those periods, and also if you will tell me how to frame my order for the payment of the money to me in London, when I am there. I suppose they will pay it into a London Bank, and I must call for it? I should not like to make a simpleton of myself to Messieurs les banquiers, and my ignorance particularly well qualifies me for doing so. I wrote to my brother to ask him always to pay my income into the Cov[entry] and War[wickshire] Bank, but as he is not precise in answering letters (mine at least) it is difficult to know what he will do.
Mr. Lewes is gone to Arthur Helps's at Vernon Hill for a week or ten days, and on his return I shall join him in London where -- that is, in the environs -- we shall establish ourselves till the big books 583 are fairly through the press, when I hope our wings will be plumed for a new flight to the south of Germany and Italy, for which we both yearn.
Poor Mr. Chapman's illness makes me fear that he really has the radical delicacy of constitution which we used to suspect in old days. And the burthen of business upon him! It is sad to think of.
Good night and love to you all from
Yours ever affectionately
Marian Evans.
Tell Sara I claim her commiseration for the frightful printer's errors in my article in the Westminster 584 which, this first sheet, at least, Mr. C. sent to the press without my seeing it.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Bray, Dover, 4 April 1855, 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/92108