GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [10 July 1879]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [10 July 1879]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [10 July 1879]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-07-10
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [10 July 1879]
MS: Mr. Romilly Southwood Ouvry. Published: Paterson, pp. 194-196.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Wednesday.
Dearest Boy
I am delighted to hear that the 19th will suit Gertrude as well as, or even better than, the 12th, and I shall live in hope that all conditions will in another ten days be more favourable to our enjoyment. The weather is so heavy a public calamity that one is ashamed of dwelling on one's individual share in it, but it has doubtless contributed to my relapse, which has been rather severe.
Do not come on the 12th but wait till the 19th when, whether I am stronger or not, you yourself must come, that I may say good bye to you before you go to Switzerland.
I am not at all anxious, for the MSS are now in such a state that they might, if necessary, be put into Sully's hands for him to see them through the press, and the legal draft of the studentship scheme is in Mr. Justice Bowen's hands, and only awaits his approval to be engrossed and carried into practical completion.
Blackwood sent me a copy of good Mr. Brown's little book. I was particularly pleased with his fine sense of the points in Harold Transome and his history, and throughout one is impressed with the beautiful nature of the man who is exhibiting himself, as we all do, in his interpretation of others. Blackwood says "the contrairy chap always used to disguise a little his devotion to you, tempering as it were my enthusiasm." He was a most valuable member of the Blackwood establishment, and a sad loss.
It is just possible that I may afterwards be the better for this sharp attack, for Mr. Parson says I must have long been getting into this bad state of apepsia, and symptoms were neglected until they declared themselves imperatively. In any case, things might have been much worse with me and I have abundant blessings.
I should think the Study of Psychology is selling, from the way in which Tr'fcbner advertises it -- for publishers rarely go on advertising without that guarantee.
Love to all Great and Small From the feeble Mutter -- Seven Stone (Her weight is known) When in heaviest clothes you put her. 295
MS: Mr. Romilly Southwood Ouvry. Published: Paterson, pp. 194-196.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Wednesday.
Dearest Boy
I am delighted to hear that the 19th will suit Gertrude as well as, or even better than, the 12th, and I shall live in hope that all conditions will in another ten days be more favourable to our enjoyment. The weather is so heavy a public calamity that one is ashamed of dwelling on one's individual share in it, but it has doubtless contributed to my relapse, which has been rather severe.
Do not come on the 12th but wait till the 19th when, whether I am stronger or not, you yourself must come, that I may say good bye to you before you go to Switzerland.
I am not at all anxious, for the MSS are now in such a state that they might, if necessary, be put into Sully's hands for him to see them through the press, and the legal draft of the studentship scheme is in Mr. Justice Bowen's hands, and only awaits his approval to be engrossed and carried into practical completion.
Blackwood sent me a copy of good Mr. Brown's little book. I was particularly pleased with his fine sense of the points in Harold Transome and his history, and throughout one is impressed with the beautiful nature of the man who is exhibiting himself, as we all do, in his interpretation of others. Blackwood says "the contrairy chap always used to disguise a little his devotion to you, tempering as it were my enthusiasm." He was a most valuable member of the Blackwood establishment, and a sad loss.
It is just possible that I may afterwards be the better for this sharp attack, for Mr. Parson says I must have long been getting into this bad state of apepsia, and symptoms were neglected until they declared themselves imperatively. In any case, things might have been much worse with me and I have abundant blessings.
I should think the Study of Psychology is selling, from the way in which Tr'fcbner advertises it -- for publishers rarely go on advertising without that guarantee.
Love to all Great and Small From the feeble Mutter -- Seven Stone (Her weight is known) When in heaviest clothes you put her. 295
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [10 July 1879], 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/92229