GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 28 November 1862(1)
Title
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 28 November 1862(1)
Title
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 28 November 1862(1)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Francois D'Albert-Durade
Date(s)
- 1862-11-28
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 28 November 1862
MS: The late Arthur Pforzheimer. A copy by D'Albert-Durade is in the Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, New Edition, pp. 356-357.
Blandford Square | November 28. 62.
Dear Friend
I have to thank you for two copies of Silas Marner, 120 which arrived the other day. I looked through the scene in the Village Tavern, and thought, so far as I am a judge of a French rendering, that you had given the spirit of the scene very charmingly. Here and there it was inevitable that, for want of the knowledge which only a native of England can have, you should mistake the meaning of a phrase.
I hope Maman and you are expecting Christmas and the New Year with a sense of family joys about you, as well as with tolerable health. With us at present the weather is mild, and we are hoping, for the sake of Lancashire weavers out of work, that the winter will not be severe.
Our life has been quite without incidents lately, and we have been absorbed in our work and our fire-side affections. In this world of struggle and endurance, we seem to have more than our share of happiness and prosperity, and I think this year's end finds me enjoying existence more than I ever did before, in spite of the loss of youth. Study is a keener delight to me than ever, and I think the affections, instead of being dulled by age, have acquired a stronger activity -- or at least their activity seems stronger for being less perturbed by the egoism of young cravings. I should like to know that your experience is the same.
My constant love to Maman. Mr. Lewes is down below in his study else I know he would want me to send his best remembrances to Madame d'Albert and you.
Generally I am very well, but this morning I am suffering from a sick headache, which I dare say, makes my letter briefer than it would otherwise be. Ever, dear friend,
Yours faithfully
Marian E. Lewes.
MS: The late Arthur Pforzheimer. A copy by D'Albert-Durade is in the Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, New Edition, pp. 356-357.
Blandford Square | November 28. 62.
Dear Friend
I have to thank you for two copies of Silas Marner, 120 which arrived the other day. I looked through the scene in the Village Tavern, and thought, so far as I am a judge of a French rendering, that you had given the spirit of the scene very charmingly. Here and there it was inevitable that, for want of the knowledge which only a native of England can have, you should mistake the meaning of a phrase.
I hope Maman and you are expecting Christmas and the New Year with a sense of family joys about you, as well as with tolerable health. With us at present the weather is mild, and we are hoping, for the sake of Lancashire weavers out of work, that the winter will not be severe.
Our life has been quite without incidents lately, and we have been absorbed in our work and our fire-side affections. In this world of struggle and endurance, we seem to have more than our share of happiness and prosperity, and I think this year's end finds me enjoying existence more than I ever did before, in spite of the loss of youth. Study is a keener delight to me than ever, and I think the affections, instead of being dulled by age, have acquired a stronger activity -- or at least their activity seems stronger for being less perturbed by the egoism of young cravings. I should like to know that your experience is the same.
My constant love to Maman. Mr. Lewes is down below in his study else I know he would want me to send his best remembrances to Madame d'Albert and you.
Generally I am very well, but this morning I am suffering from a sick headache, which I dare say, makes my letter briefer than it would otherwise be. Ever, dear friend,
Yours faithfully
Marian E. Lewes.
Signature
Marian E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Francois D'Albert-Durade, London, 28 November 1862(1), 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/92362