GE to Maria Lewis, Griff, 17 February 1841
Title
GE to Maria Lewis, Griff, 17 February 1841
Title
GE to Maria Lewis, Griff, 17 February 1841
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Maria Lewis
Date(s)
- 1841-02-17
Place
GRIFF
Letter Content
GE to Maria Lewis, Griff, 17 February 1841
MS: Yale. Address: Miss Lewis | The Revd L. Harper's | Burton Latimer | near Kettering. Postmark: COVENTRY | FE 17 | 1841. Hitherto unpublished.
Griff | February 17th 1841.
My dear Veronica,
By answering your first enquiry I preclude the necessity of entering farther into the pros and cons of the Baginton situation -- boys are included, the number of children I suppose, causing it to be thought unnecessary to divide the labour of instruction. We will therefore dismiss the matter from our letters and our minds, and wait and watch for a more propitious opening.
I tremble lest you should allow your feelings, so suddenly shaken by a change of prospect, to operate unfavourably on your weak frame, but I am sure your confidence in Divine Guidance and protection, and your well-tried elasticity of spirits will cause you to resist that tendency. Probably this projected transportation may be to a Cape of Good Hope instead of a Siberia, and it is a real comfort to have sufficient time coolly to weigh all that presents itself.
Mrs. T. Bull is staying with me and requests me to say that Mrs. King's direction is Cheetham Hill, Manchester. 297 She also wishes me to ask that you will say to Miss Harper with her love, that she will write to her in a few days.
I am obliged to curtail my letter out of politeness to my visitor, but I hope to write again soon, though my power to do so is necessarily dubious.
Much love from your true
Clematis.
MS: Yale. Address: Miss Lewis | The Revd L. Harper's | Burton Latimer | near Kettering. Postmark: COVENTRY | FE 17 | 1841. Hitherto unpublished.
Griff | February 17th 1841.
My dear Veronica,
By answering your first enquiry I preclude the necessity of entering farther into the pros and cons of the Baginton situation -- boys are included, the number of children I suppose, causing it to be thought unnecessary to divide the labour of instruction. We will therefore dismiss the matter from our letters and our minds, and wait and watch for a more propitious opening.
I tremble lest you should allow your feelings, so suddenly shaken by a change of prospect, to operate unfavourably on your weak frame, but I am sure your confidence in Divine Guidance and protection, and your well-tried elasticity of spirits will cause you to resist that tendency. Probably this projected transportation may be to a Cape of Good Hope instead of a Siberia, and it is a real comfort to have sufficient time coolly to weigh all that presents itself.
Mrs. T. Bull is staying with me and requests me to say that Mrs. King's direction is Cheetham Hill, Manchester. 297 She also wishes me to ask that you will say to Miss Harper with her love, that she will write to her in a few days.
I am obliged to curtail my letter out of politeness to my visitor, but I hope to write again soon, though my power to do so is necessarily dubious.
Much love from your true
Clematis.
Signature
Clematis.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Maria Lewis, Griff, 17 February 1841, 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/92901