GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 31 May [1843]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 31 May [1843]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 31 May [1843]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Martha Jackson
Date(s)
- 1843-05-31
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 31 May [1843]
MS: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill, May 31st.
My very dear Patty,
You were quite right in believing that the contents of your letter would be more than a little interesting to me. I do indeed rejoice that Jessie is likely to be placed in relations that are well calculated to call forth the best parts of her character. 479 Give her my kindest love and an assurance of my earnest wish that all the prettily expressed good wishes of her humourous cousin may be realized.
Your description of the probable effect on me of your news could you have told it viv'e2 voce is quite graphic. I am laughed at every week for [opening my eyes, and giving a little scream.]
I had the great pleasure of seeing your sister Sarah last week, and found her more like you than I had pictured her in my fancy. The sweet girl had just had so much excitement of an agreeable kind in seeing the Coventry churches etc. that she was unable to hear a word from me, but she looked the image or impersonation of happiness and content.
And so you are sole mistress at home, and even lonely enough to wish for me. I know no one, my dear Patty, who could administer relief to my ailments so well as you. The sight of your loving playful face would keep me in continual remembrance that this is a world of goodness and beauty. Who knows that before many years be passed we may not be thrown together? It might be the case still sooner if you would venture to risk the chances of pleasure with me at Coventry.
I have been out of health lately, and am this morning more than usually languid with a swelled face and head-ache. But I do not defer writing because I would return the "Lay" as soon as possible. Thank you, love, for thinking of me and bestowing so much unmerited kindness. May you be richly blest and ever able to return as you now do the sincere affection of your faithful friend
Mary Ann.
MS: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill, May 31st.
My very dear Patty,
You were quite right in believing that the contents of your letter would be more than a little interesting to me. I do indeed rejoice that Jessie is likely to be placed in relations that are well calculated to call forth the best parts of her character. 479 Give her my kindest love and an assurance of my earnest wish that all the prettily expressed good wishes of her humourous cousin may be realized.
Your description of the probable effect on me of your news could you have told it viv'e2 voce is quite graphic. I am laughed at every week for [opening my eyes, and giving a little scream.]
I had the great pleasure of seeing your sister Sarah last week, and found her more like you than I had pictured her in my fancy. The sweet girl had just had so much excitement of an agreeable kind in seeing the Coventry churches etc. that she was unable to hear a word from me, but she looked the image or impersonation of happiness and content.
And so you are sole mistress at home, and even lonely enough to wish for me. I know no one, my dear Patty, who could administer relief to my ailments so well as you. The sight of your loving playful face would keep me in continual remembrance that this is a world of goodness and beauty. Who knows that before many years be passed we may not be thrown together? It might be the case still sooner if you would venture to risk the chances of pleasure with me at Coventry.
I have been out of health lately, and am this morning more than usually languid with a swelled face and head-ache. But I do not defer writing because I would return the "Lay" as soon as possible. Thank you, love, for thinking of me and bestowing so much unmerited kindness. May you be richly blest and ever able to return as you now do the sincere affection of your faithful friend
Mary Ann.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 31 May [1843], 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/92927