GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 30 June 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 30 June 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 30 June 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-06-30
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 30 June 1879
MS: Mr. Norman Delamain Ouvry. Published: Paterson, pp. 189-190.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
June 30. 1879.
Dearest Boy
My most troublesome symptoms being almost got rid of I am beginning again to think of the great "Reception" as a possibility, and perhaps it will be well for Gertrude and you to fix the time (always in that provisional way that belongs to mortal doings) a week or two beforehand.
Shall we say that, all of us continuing well enough, you and Gertrude with the three children, and Eliza with her two, shall come down on Saturday the 12th? One may perhaps hope for more favourable weather by that time. Or would it be more prudent to defer the visit to the 19th? Our strawberries have not yet dropped all their blossoms. If ever they do ripen we shall have a fine crop. And the peas also will be abundant. (I have just sent down to Brock 290 to know his opinion about the ripening, being myself still in bed.)
Sir Henry Maine has sent me the one letter that has rejoiced my heart about the "Study of Psychology." He says: "In this branch of Mr. Lewes's studies I am almost as one of the ignorant, but I think I have understood every sentence in the book and I believe I have gained great knowledge from it. It has been the most satisfactory piece of work I have done for a long time." I have written to tell him that he has rescued me from my scepticism as to anyone's reading a serious book except the author or editor. I saw Tr'fcbner had given the book an excellent place in the Publisher's column of the Times the other day.
Mrs. Dowling 291 has just returned from Brock to say that he thinks the 12th will be the best time for the strawberries. Later on the birds will have taken their tithe from the best specimens. So let it be the 12th if possible. Please give the invitation to, and arrange for me with, Eliza, as I have enough to do in the way of writing, from filling up tax-papers to answering unknown correspondents. Of course I shall pay her and the children's expenses of travelling.
Mr. Warren is getting the conditions of the Studentship "settled," and I am sticking at Sheet E for want of Foster's duplicates. But all things seem easier to me yesterday and today -- the first days in which I have seemed really to be getting well. With love to all
Your faithful
Mutter.
MS: Mr. Norman Delamain Ouvry. Published: Paterson, pp. 189-190.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
June 30. 1879.
Dearest Boy
My most troublesome symptoms being almost got rid of I am beginning again to think of the great "Reception" as a possibility, and perhaps it will be well for Gertrude and you to fix the time (always in that provisional way that belongs to mortal doings) a week or two beforehand.
Shall we say that, all of us continuing well enough, you and Gertrude with the three children, and Eliza with her two, shall come down on Saturday the 12th? One may perhaps hope for more favourable weather by that time. Or would it be more prudent to defer the visit to the 19th? Our strawberries have not yet dropped all their blossoms. If ever they do ripen we shall have a fine crop. And the peas also will be abundant. (I have just sent down to Brock 290 to know his opinion about the ripening, being myself still in bed.)
Sir Henry Maine has sent me the one letter that has rejoiced my heart about the "Study of Psychology." He says: "In this branch of Mr. Lewes's studies I am almost as one of the ignorant, but I think I have understood every sentence in the book and I believe I have gained great knowledge from it. It has been the most satisfactory piece of work I have done for a long time." I have written to tell him that he has rescued me from my scepticism as to anyone's reading a serious book except the author or editor. I saw Tr'fcbner had given the book an excellent place in the Publisher's column of the Times the other day.
Mrs. Dowling 291 has just returned from Brock to say that he thinks the 12th will be the best time for the strawberries. Later on the birds will have taken their tithe from the best specimens. So let it be the 12th if possible. Please give the invitation to, and arrange for me with, Eliza, as I have enough to do in the way of writing, from filling up tax-papers to answering unknown correspondents. Of course I shall pay her and the children's expenses of travelling.
Mr. Warren is getting the conditions of the Studentship "settled," and I am sticking at Sheet E for want of Foster's duplicates. But all things seem easier to me yesterday and today -- the first days in which I have seemed really to be getting well. With love to all
Your faithful
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 30 June 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/92246