GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, 30 April 1842]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, 30 April 1842]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, 30 April 1842]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Martha Jackson
Date(s)
- 1842-04-30
Place
[GRIFF]
Letter Content
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, 30 April 1842]
Text: Poet-Lore, 6 (January 1894), 6. MS in H. Buxton Forman sale, Anderson Galleries, 27 April 1920, item 324, sold to "Alexander."
You very tenderly enquire if my trouble has ceased: at present I have no very heavy trial, but there is an uncertainty about my prospects that I wish to have removed. In the meantime, it is mine to wait patiently, confiding in a higher and stronger law than my own will, and using cheerfully the abundant delights that are given. So sweet an exercise as that of prayer for the loved, I cannot wish you not to possess; its results to yourself must be good, and your friend is not unmindful of the [effects] of your love.
Your not ungrateful though unworthy
Mary Ann Evans.
Text: Poet-Lore, 6 (January 1894), 6. MS in H. Buxton Forman sale, Anderson Galleries, 27 April 1920, item 324, sold to "Alexander."
You very tenderly enquire if my trouble has ceased: at present I have no very heavy trial, but there is an uncertainty about my prospects that I wish to have removed. In the meantime, it is mine to wait patiently, confiding in a higher and stronger law than my own will, and using cheerfully the abundant delights that are given. So sweet an exercise as that of prayer for the loved, I cannot wish you not to possess; its results to yourself must be good, and your friend is not unmindful of the [effects] of your love.
Your not ungrateful though unworthy
Mary Ann Evans.
Signature
Mary Ann Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, 30 April 1842], 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/92919