GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Dorking, [27 April 1862]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Dorking, [27 April 1862]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Dorking, [27 April 1862]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1862-04-27
Place
Dorking
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Dorking, [27 April 1862]
MS: Lieutenant-Commander Aym'e9 Arthur Carrington Ouvry. Endorsed: April 62. Text: facsimile in Paterson, facing p. 158.
Dorking | Sunday.
Dearest top-knotted chick!
I have nothing to say except that Pater and I were very much pleased to have your nice long letter -- that we are having paradisaic weather -- that I am better at last, and that Pater seems especially jolly, so that he will be an unusually full bottle of sunshine for you on Tuesday.
We like our six old maids all the better that their favourite youth is no longer here to delight them with his jokes. Great nuisances -- youths -- don't you think?
If I don't see you again before you set off you must imagine me thinking of you all the more, and longing that you may get all possible enjoyment and good out of the holiday. We are uncertain which day you will choose to set off, and perhaps your plans may differ from our expectations.
However that may be, here is Mutter's blessing in "winged words" that will fly by post and by railway and steamboat and over all hills and vallies.
God bless my boy, and send him back to his loving
Mutter.
MS: Lieutenant-Commander Aym'e9 Arthur Carrington Ouvry. Endorsed: April 62. Text: facsimile in Paterson, facing p. 158.
Dorking | Sunday.
Dearest top-knotted chick!
I have nothing to say except that Pater and I were very much pleased to have your nice long letter -- that we are having paradisaic weather -- that I am better at last, and that Pater seems especially jolly, so that he will be an unusually full bottle of sunshine for you on Tuesday.
We like our six old maids all the better that their favourite youth is no longer here to delight them with his jokes. Great nuisances -- youths -- don't you think?
If I don't see you again before you set off you must imagine me thinking of you all the more, and longing that you may get all possible enjoyment and good out of the holiday. We are uncertain which day you will choose to set off, and perhaps your plans may differ from our expectations.
However that may be, here is Mutter's blessing in "winged words" that will fly by post and by railway and steamboat and over all hills and vallies.
God bless my boy, and send him back to his loving
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Dorking, [27 April 1862], 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/92200