GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 21 September 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 21 September 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 21 September 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-09-21
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 21 September 1879
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 204.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 21. 79.
Dearest Boy
I have just received this strange letter. I know the poor man had sent M.S.S. to your Father who expressed to me his pity for him. And I believe that two small works of this Mr. Lloyd's were printed -- one [Prussia's Representative Man,] in which I think he had a collaborateur, and another of a philosophical sort, which I suppose must contain the [discovery] he refers to. 320 Both are probably on the shelves in the little bookroom. The poor thing is too evidently mad, and I don't know what I can say to him that might be of use or comfort. Will you write him a word or two, just to let him know that I have received his letter and that I bear in mind your Father's interest in him, but that I am at present unable to correspond on general topics. Something of that sort, to save him from imagining that he is despised and neglected. Lovely weather!
Always thy loving
Mutter.
I have reopened my letter to ask you if you will look in the dining room for Kussmaul's Sprachst'f6rungen. 321 It is a thinnish book -- I think on the bottom shelf between windows. I want it to verify a reference which is imperfectly given in a proof. Last proof but one came this morning (Monday)!
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, p. 204.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 21. 79.
Dearest Boy
I have just received this strange letter. I know the poor man had sent M.S.S. to your Father who expressed to me his pity for him. And I believe that two small works of this Mr. Lloyd's were printed -- one [Prussia's Representative Man,] in which I think he had a collaborateur, and another of a philosophical sort, which I suppose must contain the [discovery] he refers to. 320 Both are probably on the shelves in the little bookroom. The poor thing is too evidently mad, and I don't know what I can say to him that might be of use or comfort. Will you write him a word or two, just to let him know that I have received his letter and that I bear in mind your Father's interest in him, but that I am at present unable to correspond on general topics. Something of that sort, to save him from imagining that he is despised and neglected. Lovely weather!
Always thy loving
Mutter.
I have reopened my letter to ask you if you will look in the dining room for Kussmaul's Sprachst'f6rungen. 321 It is a thinnish book -- I think on the bottom shelf between windows. I want it to verify a reference which is imperfectly given in a proof. Last proof but one came this morning (Monday)!
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 21 September 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/92239