GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 23-24 September 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 23-24 September 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 23-24 September 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1880-09-23–<br /> 1880-09-24
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 23-24 September 1880
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Endorsed: 1880. Extracts published: Paterson, pp. 244-245.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Thursday | September 23.
Dearest Boy
I enclose the cheque for Kensington including the interest. The girls 483 have now only 102.10 between them, but the first 6 months of the year (from September last) they had 132.10. Hence for the first half year the interest would be 'ab6.12.6'bb 3.6.3 and for the 2d half year 'ab5.2.6'bb 2.11.3-5.17.6 Am I not right?
I have been and am suffering under a bilious and renal attack of a comparatively mild sort, but I expect to be well in two or three days, and am just going to drive to Godalming to meet my husband. Hence I write this hurriedly, having suddenly remembered that you may want to go to K. on Saturday.
Friday. I was unable to finish my letter yesterday in time for the Post, but I hope it will be early enough for you tomorrow. I have sent Eliza her cheque -- had done so when you wrote, in consequence of a letter from her telling me her address. But she has not acknowledged the cheque.
We should like to see you and Gertrude from Saturday to Monday some week in next month, if it would be pleasant to you to [lie out] again now that you have had some weeks of home.
I think you said that you would like to have your Grandmamma's and your Uncle Edgar's portraits. 484 It would be well if you could call for them on your way home tomorrow, as it may be necessary for us to have things moved from the Priory next week. And will you take the little Breton marketwoman (in China) if you see it standing on my bedroom mantel-piece -- lest any accident should happen to it?
Send us word when you would like to come -- I mean, as soon as you know when you would like to come. The three stamps were for the Sat. Rev. I enclose three more. Excuse any incoherence in this letter, for
I am under the influence of Hydrargyrum and am in the fourth day of headachiness. But I am getting better.
With all love, thy
Mutter.
I find that Brett has put up the little woman inside the wardrobe. I have crossed the cheque because I thought the sum was too large for you to get it cashed at the P.O.
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Endorsed: 1880. Extracts published: Paterson, pp. 244-245.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
Thursday | September 23.
Dearest Boy
I enclose the cheque for Kensington including the interest. The girls 483 have now only 102.10 between them, but the first 6 months of the year (from September last) they had 132.10. Hence for the first half year the interest would be 'ab6.12.6'bb 3.6.3 and for the 2d half year 'ab5.2.6'bb 2.11.3-5.17.6 Am I not right?
I have been and am suffering under a bilious and renal attack of a comparatively mild sort, but I expect to be well in two or three days, and am just going to drive to Godalming to meet my husband. Hence I write this hurriedly, having suddenly remembered that you may want to go to K. on Saturday.
Friday. I was unable to finish my letter yesterday in time for the Post, but I hope it will be early enough for you tomorrow. I have sent Eliza her cheque -- had done so when you wrote, in consequence of a letter from her telling me her address. But she has not acknowledged the cheque.
We should like to see you and Gertrude from Saturday to Monday some week in next month, if it would be pleasant to you to [lie out] again now that you have had some weeks of home.
I think you said that you would like to have your Grandmamma's and your Uncle Edgar's portraits. 484 It would be well if you could call for them on your way home tomorrow, as it may be necessary for us to have things moved from the Priory next week. And will you take the little Breton marketwoman (in China) if you see it standing on my bedroom mantel-piece -- lest any accident should happen to it?
Send us word when you would like to come -- I mean, as soon as you know when you would like to come. The three stamps were for the Sat. Rev. I enclose three more. Excuse any incoherence in this letter, for
I am under the influence of Hydrargyrum and am in the fourth day of headachiness. But I am getting better.
With all love, thy
Mutter.
I find that Brett has put up the little woman inside the wardrobe. I have crossed the cheque because I thought the sum was too large for you to get it cashed at the P.O.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 23-24 September 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/92242