GE to John Chapman, Richmond, 4 January 1859
Title
GE to John Chapman, Richmond, 4 January 1859
Title
GE to John Chapman, Richmond, 4 January 1859
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1859-01-04
Place
Richmond
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Richmond, 4 January 1859
MS: Mr. Carlton F. Wells, who supplied transcript. Hitherto unpublished.
Richmond | January 4. 1859.
Dear Friend
Mutual tolerance is the only condition on which we mortals can live together -- we have all of us reason to vote for it, and I quite as much as any of my acquaintances.
We are in the midst of that exciting anxious business -- taking a house. We have not yet decided what house it shall be, and are having constant journeyings with that object. 1 For the next month or more, I imagine, our leisure time will be taken up with the details of furnishing and settling, and I think we must deny ourselves the pleasure of seeing any visitors until we are fairly at ease in our new home. Till then, I remain, as of old,
Your sincere friend
Marian Lewes.
John Chapman Esq. M.D.
MS: Mr. Carlton F. Wells, who supplied transcript. Hitherto unpublished.
Richmond | January 4. 1859.
Dear Friend
Mutual tolerance is the only condition on which we mortals can live together -- we have all of us reason to vote for it, and I quite as much as any of my acquaintances.
We are in the midst of that exciting anxious business -- taking a house. We have not yet decided what house it shall be, and are having constant journeyings with that object. 1 For the next month or more, I imagine, our leisure time will be taken up with the details of furnishing and settling, and I think we must deny ourselves the pleasure of seeing any visitors until we are fairly at ease in our new home. Till then, I remain, as of old,
Your sincere friend
Marian Lewes.
John Chapman Esq. M.D.
Signature
Marian Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Richmond, 4 January 1859, 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/92799