GE to Emanuel Deutsch, Ilmenau, 13 August 1867
Title
GE to Emanuel Deutsch, Ilmenau, 13 August 1867
Title
GE to Emanuel Deutsch, Ilmenau, 13 August 1867
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Emanuel Deutsch
Date(s)
- 1867-08-13
Place
Ilmenau
Letter Content
GE to Emanuel Deutsch, Ilmenau, 13 August 1867
MS: Clark Memorial Library, University of California. Hitherto unpublished.
Ilmenau | August 13. 1867.
Dear Mr. Deutsch
Here we are among our beloved pine forests, renewing past joys -- and we like this so well that we do not think of journeying onward till the 20th. Probably on the 22d we shall be at Dresden, so will you please address your (promised) precious packet 665 to me at the Poste Restante there?
Ilmenau is somewhat changed in the thirteen years since we first saw it, owing principally to the lengthening ducts of the railway, through which the happy-seeming homely Germans have poured abundantly this year. Houses have multiplied and tables are crowded, but the everlasting hills are large enough to keep us aloof in our walks, and we are chiefly companioned by great silence which has fled to the pine woods far out of the reach of "Slap Bang" and lying after-dinner political speeches.
We get our Pall Mall three days old, and read it duly, so that we have been much obliged to you for the article on Fuad Pasha's Confession. 666 Of course no one else than you could write it, and unless, with that treasure of knowledge you carry within you, you do a great deal more of the same sort, you will deserve the anathemas of men to come, who will lack something you might have given them. Especially, pray return often to that note of reproach for unashamed ignorance, and insist that the conscientious effort to know is part of religion. See how I take it on me to tell you your duty! But as a German, you are bound to be reverent to rather silly old women and take them for prophetesses.
I am delighted to tell you that Mr. Lewes is already a new creature as to his digestion, and seems constantly in rapture to find that Ilmenau air and scenery are even better than he remembered them to be.
Send a Bl'e4ttchen, as well as the packet, to tell us where you are going for rest. I know now exactly how Heligoland lies, and if you go there I shall know your latitude and longitude. May it be long before you go thither in the mysterious boat and make it heavy with the invisible weight of your soul! Also pray send me any word you can about our friend Mrs. F. Lehmann.
Mr. Lewes unites in begging you to accept our kind regards, and I am
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
E. Deutsch Esq.
MS: Clark Memorial Library, University of California. Hitherto unpublished.
Ilmenau | August 13. 1867.
Dear Mr. Deutsch
Here we are among our beloved pine forests, renewing past joys -- and we like this so well that we do not think of journeying onward till the 20th. Probably on the 22d we shall be at Dresden, so will you please address your (promised) precious packet 665 to me at the Poste Restante there?
Ilmenau is somewhat changed in the thirteen years since we first saw it, owing principally to the lengthening ducts of the railway, through which the happy-seeming homely Germans have poured abundantly this year. Houses have multiplied and tables are crowded, but the everlasting hills are large enough to keep us aloof in our walks, and we are chiefly companioned by great silence which has fled to the pine woods far out of the reach of "Slap Bang" and lying after-dinner political speeches.
We get our Pall Mall three days old, and read it duly, so that we have been much obliged to you for the article on Fuad Pasha's Confession. 666 Of course no one else than you could write it, and unless, with that treasure of knowledge you carry within you, you do a great deal more of the same sort, you will deserve the anathemas of men to come, who will lack something you might have given them. Especially, pray return often to that note of reproach for unashamed ignorance, and insist that the conscientious effort to know is part of religion. See how I take it on me to tell you your duty! But as a German, you are bound to be reverent to rather silly old women and take them for prophetesses.
I am delighted to tell you that Mr. Lewes is already a new creature as to his digestion, and seems constantly in rapture to find that Ilmenau air and scenery are even better than he remembered them to be.
Send a Bl'e4ttchen, as well as the packet, to tell us where you are going for rest. I know now exactly how Heligoland lies, and if you go there I shall know your latitude and longitude. May it be long before you go thither in the mysterious boat and make it heavy with the invisible weight of your soul! Also pray send me any word you can about our friend Mrs. F. Lehmann.
Mr. Lewes unites in begging you to accept our kind regards, and I am
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
E. Deutsch Esq.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Emanuel Deutsch, Ilmenau, 13 August 1867, 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/92298