GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Redhill, 6 July 1872
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Redhill, 6 July 1872
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Redhill, 6 July 1872
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1872-07-06
Place
Redhill
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Redhill, 6 July 1872
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Park Road | Red Hill | July 6. 72.
Dearest Barbara
Good news of you was just what I wanted. I have often been saying, "Barbara must be settled in Sussex now," and I wondered that you sent me no word.
I had often thought of what you told me about Miss Elinor Carter, 556 so that the news of her happy engagement comes to me as something I had wished for. How many Diceys are there?
Nannie's account of Madame Mario 557 is delightful. What she says of the happiness between the husband and wife pleases me especially, because I had heard at Florence that he was 'e9goiste and allowed her to adore him. Remember me to Nannie when you write to her. I like to believe, from her saying nothing about health, that she has been gaining strength since I saw her.
It is a great comfort to me that you find good in "Middlemarch," and George will begin to like Trench 558 from henceforth. I am so used to hearing him called by that simple name that I hardly identify him with his new title.
We are going on comfortably, George having got rid of his ailments, and the warm weather being friendly to us both. Gertrude is very near her confinement, and a letter from Charlie today tells us that she is going on well. Her sister Emily is to be married to Edmund Maurice next month.
I suppose Bessie is in France now. She made no sign of herself to me after calling with her husband one Sunday in the early Spring. If Miss Edwards is with you give my love to her and tell her she should get the volumes of a very cheap publication -- the Deutscher Novellenschatz -- that is to say if she doesn't already know them as well as I do. Some of the tales are remarkably fine. I am reading aloud the last three volumes, which are even better than the others (George just tells me that he has already recommended this, so pray excuse me for the needless repetition.) I have just been so deeply interested in one of the stories "Diethelm von Buchenberg," 559 that I want everybody to have the same pleasure, who can read German.
We both desire to be remembered to the Doctor, who I hope is looking as well and handsome as he was last year. I of course am still anxious, as I always am when any work is not safely finished, and my days are very full with writing walking and reading aloud. My letters are written at night when I am tired and stupid.
Think of me as often as you can and believe me
Yours always affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Park Road | Red Hill | July 6. 72.
Dearest Barbara
Good news of you was just what I wanted. I have often been saying, "Barbara must be settled in Sussex now," and I wondered that you sent me no word.
I had often thought of what you told me about Miss Elinor Carter, 556 so that the news of her happy engagement comes to me as something I had wished for. How many Diceys are there?
Nannie's account of Madame Mario 557 is delightful. What she says of the happiness between the husband and wife pleases me especially, because I had heard at Florence that he was 'e9goiste and allowed her to adore him. Remember me to Nannie when you write to her. I like to believe, from her saying nothing about health, that she has been gaining strength since I saw her.
It is a great comfort to me that you find good in "Middlemarch," and George will begin to like Trench 558 from henceforth. I am so used to hearing him called by that simple name that I hardly identify him with his new title.
We are going on comfortably, George having got rid of his ailments, and the warm weather being friendly to us both. Gertrude is very near her confinement, and a letter from Charlie today tells us that she is going on well. Her sister Emily is to be married to Edmund Maurice next month.
I suppose Bessie is in France now. She made no sign of herself to me after calling with her husband one Sunday in the early Spring. If Miss Edwards is with you give my love to her and tell her she should get the volumes of a very cheap publication -- the Deutscher Novellenschatz -- that is to say if she doesn't already know them as well as I do. Some of the tales are remarkably fine. I am reading aloud the last three volumes, which are even better than the others (George just tells me that he has already recommended this, so pray excuse me for the needless repetition.) I have just been so deeply interested in one of the stories "Diethelm von Buchenberg," 559 that I want everybody to have the same pleasure, who can read German.
We both desire to be remembered to the Doctor, who I hope is looking as well and handsome as he was last year. I of course am still anxious, as I always am when any work is not safely finished, and my days are very full with writing walking and reading aloud. My letters are written at night when I am tired and stupid.
Think of me as often as you can and believe me
Yours always affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Redhill, 6 July 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/93076