GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 17-18 September [1859]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 17-18 September [1859]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 17-18 September [1859]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1859-09-17–<br /> 1859-09-18
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 17-18 September [1859]
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Envelope: Mrs. Bodichon | 21 Alpha Road | St. John's Wood. Postmark: LONDON-S.W | 12 | SP 19 | 59. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Saturday Night, September 17.
Dear Barbara
If you ever write to me again through an earthly post, address to this place. We are settled at home again and are flourishing like the green bay tree. 299
I have just been reading, with deep interest and heart-stirring, the article on the Infant Seamstresses in the Englishwoman's Journal. 300 If, as I imagine, Bessie is the writer, just say to her when you happen to be writing to her or seeing her, that I am one among the grateful readers of that moving description -- moving because the writer's own soul was moved by love and pity in the writing of it. These are the papers that will make the Journal a true organ, with a function.
Of course you will go off to Africa without writing me a word, and I shall hear no more of you till you are amongst the palms and olives with six long months between us!
Well, God bless you, wherever you are, and fill your life full of joyful work. I am writing at the end of the day, on the brink of sleep, too tired to think of anything but that picture of the little sleeping slopworker who had pricked her tiny finger so. 301
Yours always
G. E.
Sunday. I see, from an allusion in another article, that the writer of "Infant Seamstresses" is not Bessie. 302 Is it Isa Craig? I love the writer, whoever she may be.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Envelope: Mrs. Bodichon | 21 Alpha Road | St. John's Wood. Postmark: LONDON-S.W | 12 | SP 19 | 59. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Saturday Night, September 17.
Dear Barbara
If you ever write to me again through an earthly post, address to this place. We are settled at home again and are flourishing like the green bay tree. 299
I have just been reading, with deep interest and heart-stirring, the article on the Infant Seamstresses in the Englishwoman's Journal. 300 If, as I imagine, Bessie is the writer, just say to her when you happen to be writing to her or seeing her, that I am one among the grateful readers of that moving description -- moving because the writer's own soul was moved by love and pity in the writing of it. These are the papers that will make the Journal a true organ, with a function.
Of course you will go off to Africa without writing me a word, and I shall hear no more of you till you are amongst the palms and olives with six long months between us!
Well, God bless you, wherever you are, and fill your life full of joyful work. I am writing at the end of the day, on the brink of sleep, too tired to think of anything but that picture of the little sleeping slopworker who had pricked her tiny finger so. 301
Yours always
G. E.
Sunday. I see, from an allusion in another article, that the writer of "Infant Seamstresses" is not Bessie. 302 Is it Isa Craig? I love the writer, whoever she may be.
Signature
G. E.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 17-18 September [1859], 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/93092