GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [7 July 1879]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [7 July 1879]
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [7 July 1879]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-07-07
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [7 July 1879]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 7 July 79. Published: Paterson, pp. 193-194.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Monday | Dal letto.
Dearest Boy
On Saturday I had a rather severe relapse and though I am getting out of the tunnel into daylight, this renewal of weakness taken with the dreary prospects of the weather under which nothing ripens and fruits hardly escape rotting, makes it seem as if we should be wiser to defer the visit till the 19th when the promised Rubicon of the 16th will have been passed. Qu'en dis tu?
Baill'e8re of Paris has asked me to let him publish a translation of the [Study of Psychology] (not of course paying anything), and I have gladly given him permission.
Ballantynes go on rapidly and regularly with the printing, but Michael Foster is slow in sending me his duplicates, so that I cannot be correspondingly rapid and regular.
The poem called [Memories] is from a lawyer in Cornwall aged 71 who has been Clerk of the Peace at Bodmin for 41 years. 293 He is evidently a very cultivated man. I have had 2 letters from him which Mrs. Gibson sent on.
I don't know Sir Lewis Pelly's address, else I would write to him. 294
Fancy! I am ordered to drink Champagne and am wasting my substance in riotous living at the rate of a pint bottle daily. Meanwhile my bodily substance in the shape of flesh is wasting also. But my doctor is the greatest possible comfort to me, and everything is being done for me that can be done. To counterbalance other pains I have had no headache to speak of all through the illness, and am generally able to get through some work of letter-writing and proof-reading -- nay some days I have played an hour on the piano. The relapse, thinks the doctor, may have been due to chills.
Love to all from
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 7 July 79. Published: Paterson, pp. 193-194.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Monday | Dal letto.
Dearest Boy
On Saturday I had a rather severe relapse and though I am getting out of the tunnel into daylight, this renewal of weakness taken with the dreary prospects of the weather under which nothing ripens and fruits hardly escape rotting, makes it seem as if we should be wiser to defer the visit till the 19th when the promised Rubicon of the 16th will have been passed. Qu'en dis tu?
Baill'e8re of Paris has asked me to let him publish a translation of the [Study of Psychology] (not of course paying anything), and I have gladly given him permission.
Ballantynes go on rapidly and regularly with the printing, but Michael Foster is slow in sending me his duplicates, so that I cannot be correspondingly rapid and regular.
The poem called [Memories] is from a lawyer in Cornwall aged 71 who has been Clerk of the Peace at Bodmin for 41 years. 293 He is evidently a very cultivated man. I have had 2 letters from him which Mrs. Gibson sent on.
I don't know Sir Lewis Pelly's address, else I would write to him. 294
Fancy! I am ordered to drink Champagne and am wasting my substance in riotous living at the rate of a pint bottle daily. Meanwhile my bodily substance in the shape of flesh is wasting also. But my doctor is the greatest possible comfort to me, and everything is being done for me that can be done. To counterbalance other pains I have had no headache to speak of all through the illness, and am generally able to get through some work of letter-writing and proof-reading -- nay some days I have played an hour on the piano. The relapse, thinks the doctor, may have been due to chills.
Love to all from
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, [7 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/92233