GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 12 August 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 12 August 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 12 August 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-08-12
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 12 August 1879
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 203.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 12. 79.
Dearest Boy
It is delightful to think of you at Barmouth today -- the sky is so bright and the air, to my acute sensations, of a warmth quite unprecedented in this dismal summer. You seem to have had much the same alternations as we have had hitherto.
I am sorry to trouble you with the enclosed letter from an unconsciously impertinent American, but I think it is rather important that he should be set right. Will you send him an official letter to the effect that Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot), whom he has mistakenly addressed as Miss Marian Evans, has no photograph of herself and systematically abstains from giving her autograph. I send you the envelope as a specimen of what an American will do in the way of adventurous letter-directing. 313
Theophrastus goes on selling and B's have been printing an additional store. I have had the table of sales of my books between January 1 and June 30 -- more than 18,000 volumes (including the sale of Theo.) But where there would have been joy in this there is silence. I am getting much stronger in body but more depressed in mind. Love to big and little from
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 203.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 12. 79.
Dearest Boy
It is delightful to think of you at Barmouth today -- the sky is so bright and the air, to my acute sensations, of a warmth quite unprecedented in this dismal summer. You seem to have had much the same alternations as we have had hitherto.
I am sorry to trouble you with the enclosed letter from an unconsciously impertinent American, but I think it is rather important that he should be set right. Will you send him an official letter to the effect that Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot), whom he has mistakenly addressed as Miss Marian Evans, has no photograph of herself and systematically abstains from giving her autograph. I send you the envelope as a specimen of what an American will do in the way of adventurous letter-directing. 313
Theophrastus goes on selling and B's have been printing an additional store. I have had the table of sales of my books between January 1 and June 30 -- more than 18,000 volumes (including the sale of Theo.) But where there would have been joy in this there is silence. I am getting much stronger in body but more depressed in mind. Love to big and little from
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 12 August 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/92235