GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 19 August 1879
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 19 August 1879
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 19 August 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1879-08-19
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 19 August 1879
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 19. 79.
Dearest Barbara
How are you now? I should like to hear some more good news of you such as Miss Marks wrote me many weeks ago.
I am at last getting out of my trying illness and hope to go on without relapse. During the last fortnight I have been in tolerable ease and have been gathering strength.
The deed of the Studentship is now executed and Prof. Foster writes me that the Trustees will meet next week at Sheffield, when they will appoint the Director and proceed to advertise the fact of the Studentship being opened.
The continually recurring rain is terribly depressing to me. I hope you are more independent of that malignant influence -- though few can be independent of the thought that the rain means general calamity.
Since you liked some of the things in Theophrastus Such, you will perhaps also like to know that nearly 6000 of him have been sold, so that if he has told any needful truths the medicine has been taken by many.
I wish I had anything else to tell that would interest you, but I am a hermit.
Your ever loving
Marian.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 19. 79.
Dearest Barbara
How are you now? I should like to hear some more good news of you such as Miss Marks wrote me many weeks ago.
I am at last getting out of my trying illness and hope to go on without relapse. During the last fortnight I have been in tolerable ease and have been gathering strength.
The deed of the Studentship is now executed and Prof. Foster writes me that the Trustees will meet next week at Sheffield, when they will appoint the Director and proceed to advertise the fact of the Studentship being opened.
The continually recurring rain is terribly depressing to me. I hope you are more independent of that malignant influence -- though few can be independent of the thought that the rain means general calamity.
Since you liked some of the things in Theophrastus Such, you will perhaps also like to know that nearly 6000 of him have been sold, so that if he has told any needful truths the medicine has been taken by many.
I wish I had anything else to tell that would interest you, but I am a hermit.
Your ever loving
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 19 August 1879, 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/93105