GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 27 April 1859
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 27 April 1859
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 27 April 1859
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1859-04-27
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 27 April 1859
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | South Fields | Wandsworth | April 27. 59.
Dear Barbara
When you come to us on the third Sunday in June, come to the Putney Station, not to the Wandsworth Station. The walk is prettier and not longer, from Putney, and if we knew your hour of arrival we would meet you.
I sent on your letter about the unhappy Mary Jones to Dr. Blackwell, 123 not being able to act in consequence of it myself. I say no more by letter because, we shall have better opportunities of understanding each other.
But one little bit of news I must tell you because I know it will please you. Mr. Lewes lunched the other day with Toynbee the great aurist, 124 and in answer to the question whether he knew Dr. E. Blackwell, Toynbee said that she had been to his place to look over his apparatus and that there was more judgment and knowledge in her remarks than in any professional visitor's he remembered. That will please both your friendship and your theory, won't it?
No more at present, from your busy and affectionate
Marian.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | South Fields | Wandsworth | April 27. 59.
Dear Barbara
When you come to us on the third Sunday in June, come to the Putney Station, not to the Wandsworth Station. The walk is prettier and not longer, from Putney, and if we knew your hour of arrival we would meet you.
I sent on your letter about the unhappy Mary Jones to Dr. Blackwell, 123 not being able to act in consequence of it myself. I say no more by letter because, we shall have better opportunities of understanding each other.
But one little bit of news I must tell you because I know it will please you. Mr. Lewes lunched the other day with Toynbee the great aurist, 124 and in answer to the question whether he knew Dr. E. Blackwell, Toynbee said that she had been to his place to look over his apparatus and that there was more judgment and knowledge in her remarks than in any professional visitor's he remembered. That will please both your friendship and your theory, won't it?
No more at present, from your busy and affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 27 April 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/93094