GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 23 February 187[4]
Title
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 23 February 187[4]
Title
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 23 February 187[4]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Francois D'Albert-Durade
Date(s)
- 1874-02-23
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 23 February 187[4]
Text: Copy by D'Albert-Durade in Tinker Collection, Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory | 21 North Bank | Regent's Park | February 23. 76.
My dear Friend
In reply to your kind letter received on Saturday I can tell you without delay that Mlle. Herzog repaid the £30 only a few days after the sum had been transmitted to her. 43 Your suggestion that her pictures may be part of the property consumed with the Pantechnicon 44 makes me feel a pitying alarm on her account. I trust a little in the various possibilities that may have led her to some other place of deposit. She would indeed be an object of sympathy if her pictures were consigned to the Pantechnicon uninsured.
I am made the happier when I think of you by knowing that our mild winter has made life gentler to you by telling favourably on dear Madam D'Albert. Give her my tender love and assure her that Mr. Lewes always counts it a gain to him that our visit to Geneva gave him the true delightful image of her.
He is in great [form] just now from improved health and is writing and studying with much enjoyment. It will perhaps interest you to hear that that incalculable entity, the Public, seems enamoured enough of "Middlemarch" to go on spiritedly buying a guinea edition which came out last summer. But I am correcting the sheets for a new edition. 45
We enter thoroughly into the repose of mind which you find in the wellbeing of your sons, and the sense that in quitting life you will leave no hardship to press on those who are still at the early point of their journey. Believe me, dear Friend
Yours ever with grateful affection
M. E. Lewes.
Text: Copy by D'Albert-Durade in Tinker Collection, Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory | 21 North Bank | Regent's Park | February 23. 76.
My dear Friend
In reply to your kind letter received on Saturday I can tell you without delay that Mlle. Herzog repaid the £30 only a few days after the sum had been transmitted to her. 43 Your suggestion that her pictures may be part of the property consumed with the Pantechnicon 44 makes me feel a pitying alarm on her account. I trust a little in the various possibilities that may have led her to some other place of deposit. She would indeed be an object of sympathy if her pictures were consigned to the Pantechnicon uninsured.
I am made the happier when I think of you by knowing that our mild winter has made life gentler to you by telling favourably on dear Madam D'Albert. Give her my tender love and assure her that Mr. Lewes always counts it a gain to him that our visit to Geneva gave him the true delightful image of her.
He is in great [form] just now from improved health and is writing and studying with much enjoyment. It will perhaps interest you to hear that that incalculable entity, the Public, seems enamoured enough of "Middlemarch" to go on spiritedly buying a guinea edition which came out last summer. But I am correcting the sheets for a new edition. 45
We enter thoroughly into the repose of mind which you find in the wellbeing of your sons, and the sense that in quitting life you will leave no hardship to press on those who are still at the early point of their journey. Believe me, dear Friend
Yours ever with grateful affection
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 23 February 187[4], 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/92353