GE to James Sully, Witley, 7 August 1879
Title
GE to James Sully, Witley, 7 August 1879
Title
GE to James Sully, Witley, 7 August 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
James Sully
Date(s)
- 1879-08-07
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to James Sully, Witley, 7 August 1879
Text: Cross, III, 374.
Thank you for your kind note. There are to be more than as many proofs as you have already had, for which I must crave the valuable aid of your reading.
You will understand all the better how much comfort it is to me to have your help as well as Professor Foster's, when I tell you that for the last eight weeks I have been seriously out of health, and have often been suffering much pain -- a state which I imagine you know by experience to heighten all real anxieties, and usually to create unreal.
It cheers me to be told by you that you think the volume interesting. In reading the MS. again and again, I had got into a state of tremor about it which deprived me of judgment -- just as if it were writing of my own, which I could not trust myself to pronounce upon.
I hope that your own health, and Mrs Sully's too, will have been benefited by your change from south to north.
Text: Cross, III, 374.
Thank you for your kind note. There are to be more than as many proofs as you have already had, for which I must crave the valuable aid of your reading.
You will understand all the better how much comfort it is to me to have your help as well as Professor Foster's, when I tell you that for the last eight weeks I have been seriously out of health, and have often been suffering much pain -- a state which I imagine you know by experience to heighten all real anxieties, and usually to create unreal.
It cheers me to be told by you that you think the volume interesting. In reading the MS. again and again, I had got into a state of tremor about it which deprived me of judgment -- just as if it were writing of my own, which I could not trust myself to pronounce upon.
I hope that your own health, and Mrs Sully's too, will have been benefited by your change from south to north.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to James Sully, Witley, 7 August 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/92552