GE to Kate Field, London, 21 May 1872
Title
GE to Kate Field, London, 21 May 1872
Title
GE to Kate Field, London, 21 May 1872
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Kate Field
Date(s)
- 1872-05-21
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Kate Field, London, 21 May 1872
MS: Boston Public Library. Published: Lilian Whiting, Kate Field: A Record, Boston, 1899, pp. 270-271.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
May 21. 72.
Dear Miss Field 520
Your letter finds me still here, but in the midst of arrangements for our departure. The weather, our ailments, and various other causes have made us put off our flight from one week to another, but now we are really fluttering our wings and making a dust about us.
I wish we had seen you oftener. I was placidly looking forward to your staying in England another year or more, and gave way to my general languor about seeing friends in these late months, which have been too full of small bodily miseries for me to feel that I had much space to give to pleasanter occupation.
The present of Autumn leaves which Col. T. W. Higginson 521 has brought will be very gratefully accepted if he will kindly send them to this house so that I may find them on our return in our coming autumn. Pray thank him on my behalf.
If Mrs. Mark Pattison is still in town, and if you are seeing her, will you say that I expected her to come the Sunday before last? -- since it had been agreed that if we left before the Sunday she was to have a card telling her the fact. I wish you had been here on that Sunday -- there was some pleasant singing of men's voices. 522
Mr. Lewes adds his hearty wishes to mine that your future may be a bright one. We trust that your visit to England has been at least a good seed-time in your experience, and you are young enough to make such sowing all-important.
Goodbye. Believe me, always, whether you come back to us in the flesh or not,
Yours with sincere friendliness
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Boston Public Library. Published: Lilian Whiting, Kate Field: A Record, Boston, 1899, pp. 270-271.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
May 21. 72.
Dear Miss Field 520
Your letter finds me still here, but in the midst of arrangements for our departure. The weather, our ailments, and various other causes have made us put off our flight from one week to another, but now we are really fluttering our wings and making a dust about us.
I wish we had seen you oftener. I was placidly looking forward to your staying in England another year or more, and gave way to my general languor about seeing friends in these late months, which have been too full of small bodily miseries for me to feel that I had much space to give to pleasanter occupation.
The present of Autumn leaves which Col. T. W. Higginson 521 has brought will be very gratefully accepted if he will kindly send them to this house so that I may find them on our return in our coming autumn. Pray thank him on my behalf.
If Mrs. Mark Pattison is still in town, and if you are seeing her, will you say that I expected her to come the Sunday before last? -- since it had been agreed that if we left before the Sunday she was to have a card telling her the fact. I wish you had been here on that Sunday -- there was some pleasant singing of men's voices. 522
Mr. Lewes adds his hearty wishes to mine that your future may be a bright one. We trust that your visit to England has been at least a good seed-time in your experience, and you are young enough to make such sowing all-important.
Goodbye. Believe me, always, whether you come back to us in the flesh or not,
Yours with sincere friendliness
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Kate Field, London, 21 May 1872, 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/92855