GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1868
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1868
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1868
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1868-11-16
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1868
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, III, 65.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 16. 68.
Dearest Barbara
Thanks for your little note of notification. No oracle would dare to predict what will be our next migration. Don't be surprized if we go to the borders of the White Sea, to escape the fitful fast and loose, hot and cold, of the London climate.
The Chromo-lithograph awaited me on my return from Matlock. Many thanks. When you have occasion to write, tell me, if you can remember, what is the price. It is very pretty, though not what your words had foreshadowed.
We enjoyed our journey to the North. It was a great experience to me to see the stupendous iron-works at Sheffield, and then, for a variety, we went to the quiet and beauty of Matlock, and I recognized all the spots I had carried in my memory for more than five and twenty years. 836 I drove through that region with my Father when I was a young grig -- not very full of hope about my woman's-future. I am one of those perhaps exceptional people whose early childish dreams were much less happy than the real outcome of life.
G. is but so-so. He sends his love, which is always whole and sound in spite of dyspepsia. You will divine my sentences, if you can only half read them. I am scribbling on my lap, with a soft background.
Always yours
Marian.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, III, 65.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 16. 68.
Dearest Barbara
Thanks for your little note of notification. No oracle would dare to predict what will be our next migration. Don't be surprized if we go to the borders of the White Sea, to escape the fitful fast and loose, hot and cold, of the London climate.
The Chromo-lithograph awaited me on my return from Matlock. Many thanks. When you have occasion to write, tell me, if you can remember, what is the price. It is very pretty, though not what your words had foreshadowed.
We enjoyed our journey to the North. It was a great experience to me to see the stupendous iron-works at Sheffield, and then, for a variety, we went to the quiet and beauty of Matlock, and I recognized all the spots I had carried in my memory for more than five and twenty years. 836 I drove through that region with my Father when I was a young grig -- not very full of hope about my woman's-future. I am one of those perhaps exceptional people whose early childish dreams were much less happy than the real outcome of life.
G. is but so-so. He sends his love, which is always whole and sound in spite of dyspepsia. You will divine my sentences, if you can only half read them. I am scribbling on my lap, with a soft background.
Always yours
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1868, 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/93034