GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Shottermill, 17 August [1871]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Shottermill, 17 August [1871]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Shottermill, 17 August [1871]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1871-08-17
Place
Shottermill
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Shottermill, 17 August [1871]
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Cherrimans, Shottermill, Petersfield. | August 17th.
Dearest Barbara
We shall be delighted to see you next Tuesday. There is an excellent bedroom here at your service. But if you really prefer the inn -- though that would be a pity -- you shall do as you like. We dine now at two o'clock, because, although this high place is much cooler than the rest of the world, it is still too hot for us to find walking agreeable in the middle of the day. Can you write and let us know at what time you will be able to arrive? -- since we could alter our dinner time to any hour, if we only knew what would suit you.
There is no luxurious living in this region -- tightness of butchers shops and unimaginative English cooking. But we have light bread, good butter and milk, and always a dinner not of herbs alone, but of some joint after the taste of the British-human carnivors.
I thought you never would write to say you were coming.
George went to town yesterday and heard of you from poor Owen Jones, whom you have helped a little in his sad suffering.
Always thine
M. E. L.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Cherrimans, Shottermill, Petersfield. | August 17th.
Dearest Barbara
We shall be delighted to see you next Tuesday. There is an excellent bedroom here at your service. But if you really prefer the inn -- though that would be a pity -- you shall do as you like. We dine now at two o'clock, because, although this high place is much cooler than the rest of the world, it is still too hot for us to find walking agreeable in the middle of the day. Can you write and let us know at what time you will be able to arrive? -- since we could alter our dinner time to any hour, if we only knew what would suit you.
There is no luxurious living in this region -- tightness of butchers shops and unimaginative English cooking. But we have light bread, good butter and milk, and always a dinner not of herbs alone, but of some joint after the taste of the British-human carnivors.
I thought you never would write to say you were coming.
George went to town yesterday and heard of you from poor Owen Jones, whom you have helped a little in his sad suffering.
Always thine
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Shottermill, 17 August [1871], 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/93078