GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Luxembourg, 21 July 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Luxembourg, 21 July 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Luxembourg, 21 July 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1880-07-21
Place
Luxembourg
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Luxembourg, 21 July 1880
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 236.
Luxembourg, July 21. 1880.
Dearest Boy
We shall not, I believe, get home till Monday next, the 26th. I hope that if you do not set off till the 30th, 31st or 1st you will be able to run down as you propose, sending me a post card to say so. You did not, after all, say anything about Eliza in your last letter. Please bring me all letters. I am sorry I did not ask you to forward me Sir H. Holland's and Mrs. Strachey's letters, now that I have been detained so long without answering them. The weather is very warm and slackens one's energies, making it only wise to get home by easy stages. It is a mistake to wear oneself out at the end of continental travel by taking long railway journeys. -- I did mean to give you all the numbers of the Blackwood stories.
Will you kindly send a post card to Mrs. Dowling (I have lately written to her about preparations) telling her that we shall arrive at Witley by one of the late afternoon trains on Monday? When we get to Calais I shall probably be able to send her word of the exact hour, but it will be well for her to know the day at once.
Your loving, longing-to-see-you-again
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 236.
Luxembourg, July 21. 1880.
Dearest Boy
We shall not, I believe, get home till Monday next, the 26th. I hope that if you do not set off till the 30th, 31st or 1st you will be able to run down as you propose, sending me a post card to say so. You did not, after all, say anything about Eliza in your last letter. Please bring me all letters. I am sorry I did not ask you to forward me Sir H. Holland's and Mrs. Strachey's letters, now that I have been detained so long without answering them. The weather is very warm and slackens one's energies, making it only wise to get home by easy stages. It is a mistake to wear oneself out at the end of continental travel by taking long railway journeys. -- I did mean to give you all the numbers of the Blackwood stories.
Will you kindly send a post card to Mrs. Dowling (I have lately written to her about preparations) telling her that we shall arrive at Witley by one of the late afternoon trains on Monday? When we get to Calais I shall probably be able to send her word of the exact hour, but it will be well for her to know the day at once.
Your loving, longing-to-see-you-again
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Luxembourg, 21 July 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/92213