GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 2 July 1879
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 2 July 1879
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 2 July 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1879-07-02
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 2 July 1879
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, III, 371-372.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
July 2. 79.
Dearest Barbara
The sight of your handwriting on the pamphlet sent me by Madame Mario (whom please thank for me when you are sending to her) urges me to do the sooner what I should have already done but for a rather sharp illness which has kept me chiefly in bed for nearly a fortnight and from which I am not yet quite free.
I enclose a copy of Michael Foster's Draft of conditions for the Studentship, which I put into the lawyer's hands some ten or twelve days ago, and which is now come to me drawn up in legal form -- differing greatly from the original sketch as to wording, but agreeing with it in all essentials. 292 You said it would interest you to see the Draft and I have been bearing this in mind but have not been able to go to the desk where the copy lay.
I hope to hear that you have been going on well despite the cruel restless winds and sad intermittence of sunshine. Write me word when you return the copy. On the 12th I am going to have two daughters-in-law, five grandchildren, and servant, for a week -- if I can get well enough, as I have good hope now that I shall. The strawberries will be ripe then, and as I can't eat any myself it would be dolorous not to be able to have the children and see them enjoy the juicy blessing.
Always thine faithfully and lovingly
Marian.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, III, 371-372.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
July 2. 79.
Dearest Barbara
The sight of your handwriting on the pamphlet sent me by Madame Mario (whom please thank for me when you are sending to her) urges me to do the sooner what I should have already done but for a rather sharp illness which has kept me chiefly in bed for nearly a fortnight and from which I am not yet quite free.
I enclose a copy of Michael Foster's Draft of conditions for the Studentship, which I put into the lawyer's hands some ten or twelve days ago, and which is now come to me drawn up in legal form -- differing greatly from the original sketch as to wording, but agreeing with it in all essentials. 292 You said it would interest you to see the Draft and I have been bearing this in mind but have not been able to go to the desk where the copy lay.
I hope to hear that you have been going on well despite the cruel restless winds and sad intermittence of sunshine. Write me word when you return the copy. On the 12th I am going to have two daughters-in-law, five grandchildren, and servant, for a week -- if I can get well enough, as I have good hope now that I shall. The strawberries will be ripe then, and as I can't eat any myself it would be dolorous not to be able to have the children and see them enjoy the juicy blessing.
Always thine faithfully and lovingly
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 2 July 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/93107