GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Brighton, [7 October 1880]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Brighton, [7 October 1880]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Brighton, [7 October 1880]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1880-10-07
Place
Brighton
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Brighton, [7 October 1880]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Brighton 7 Oct. 80. Published: Paterson, pp. 245-246.
Thursday
Dearest Boy
We think that I have gained something by being here and hence we intend to stay till Saturday or Monday. Let us, then, defer your and Gertrude's visit till the following Saturday -- the 'ab14th'bb 16th? -- I am not well up in my almanack.
Alas, I think there is no sort of continental edition of the Problems, except a Russian (translation?) one of the first two volumes. 486 Tauchnitz refused to publish volumes of an unfinished work, and Herzen's proposed translation of the III volume has I suppose not been achieved, else he would have let me know of it. 487 [The Study of Psychology] would be a good volume for your reading club, if the other were thought too long.
The first few days here were gloriously fine, but lately we have been having rain. This, however, is the least damp and most conveniently reached of coast places. Johnnie gets a game of real tennis -- jeu de paume -- every day, which does him great good. There is a public tennis court which can be bespoken for a particular hour in the day.
Eliza wrote to tell me she was going to Cheltenham. It lessens one's regret that she wanders about in this way, to think that the variety of experience is a sort of culture for her.
You must think of me as being cared for in every way with a miraculous tenderness. Our love to both.
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Brighton 7 Oct. 80. Published: Paterson, pp. 245-246.
Thursday
Dearest Boy
We think that I have gained something by being here and hence we intend to stay till Saturday or Monday. Let us, then, defer your and Gertrude's visit till the following Saturday -- the 'ab14th'bb 16th? -- I am not well up in my almanack.
Alas, I think there is no sort of continental edition of the Problems, except a Russian (translation?) one of the first two volumes. 486 Tauchnitz refused to publish volumes of an unfinished work, and Herzen's proposed translation of the III volume has I suppose not been achieved, else he would have let me know of it. 487 [The Study of Psychology] would be a good volume for your reading club, if the other were thought too long.
The first few days here were gloriously fine, but lately we have been having rain. This, however, is the least damp and most conveniently reached of coast places. Johnnie gets a game of real tennis -- jeu de paume -- every day, which does him great good. There is a public tennis court which can be bespoken for a particular hour in the day.
Eliza wrote to tell me she was going to Cheltenham. It lessens one's regret that she wanders about in this way, to think that the variety of experience is a sort of culture for her.
You must think of me as being cared for in every way with a miraculous tenderness. Our love to both.
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Brighton, [7 October 1880], 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/92199