GE to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray, [London], 5 March 1853
Title
GE to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray, [London], 5 March 1853
Title
GE to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray, [London], 5 March 1853
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray
Date(s)
- 1853-03-05
Place
[London]
Letter Content
GE to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray, [London], 5 March 1853
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 307-308.
March 5. 1853.
Dear Friends
I send you a critique from the [Churchman] which will amuse you. Please to return it.
Mr. Chapman asked me the other day whether he had better send a copy of Newman's Horace 287 to the Coventry Herald. The work being published on commission, of course, he is bound to regulate its distribution to provincial papers with strict regard to Newman's interests. Should you notice it, and would the notice be at all influential on the Coventry public? Newman has honored me with a presentation copy.
I have been to Blandford Sq. (Leigh Smiths) 288 to an evening party this week. These soir'e9es are a terrible corv'e9e even without gas-lights -- especially when one gets introduced to a man who squints and one is haunted by the squint for an hour after getting home as one sometimes sees one's own eyes in the glass in an incipient bilious attack. Dined at Mr. Parkes's on Sunday, and am invited to go there again tonight to meet said Smiths, but I think I shall not go, the weather being wet and I ailing.
Better news of Harry, to-morrow I hope, and of Cara's tooth.
Dear Mr. Bray -- do you remember the "boiled mutton chops" in the Leader. 289 I don't think that dish would suit me.
I want to know what you think of Villette. Lewes was describing Currer Bell to me yesterday as a little, plain, provincial, sickly-looking old maid. 290 Yet what passion, what fire in her! Quite as much as in George Sand, only the clothing is less voluptuous.
Pray what does Sara mean by saying that my having plenty to do must be a great treat to me? I will trouble her to be more respectful to my serene editorship. The Review is to be stunning this time -- very superior to the last both in variety and general interest. I am going to write to Col. Thompson 291 who has asked leave to insert an article at the eleventh hour.
I am very jolly -- and ever your affectionate
Marian.
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 307-308.
March 5. 1853.
Dear Friends
I send you a critique from the [Churchman] which will amuse you. Please to return it.
Mr. Chapman asked me the other day whether he had better send a copy of Newman's Horace 287 to the Coventry Herald. The work being published on commission, of course, he is bound to regulate its distribution to provincial papers with strict regard to Newman's interests. Should you notice it, and would the notice be at all influential on the Coventry public? Newman has honored me with a presentation copy.
I have been to Blandford Sq. (Leigh Smiths) 288 to an evening party this week. These soir'e9es are a terrible corv'e9e even without gas-lights -- especially when one gets introduced to a man who squints and one is haunted by the squint for an hour after getting home as one sometimes sees one's own eyes in the glass in an incipient bilious attack. Dined at Mr. Parkes's on Sunday, and am invited to go there again tonight to meet said Smiths, but I think I shall not go, the weather being wet and I ailing.
Better news of Harry, to-morrow I hope, and of Cara's tooth.
Dear Mr. Bray -- do you remember the "boiled mutton chops" in the Leader. 289 I don't think that dish would suit me.
I want to know what you think of Villette. Lewes was describing Currer Bell to me yesterday as a little, plain, provincial, sickly-looking old maid. 290 Yet what passion, what fire in her! Quite as much as in George Sand, only the clothing is less voluptuous.
Pray what does Sara mean by saying that my having plenty to do must be a great treat to me? I will trouble her to be more respectful to my serene editorship. The Review is to be stunning this time -- very superior to the last both in variety and general interest. I am going to write to Col. Thompson 291 who has asked leave to insert an article at the eleventh hour.
I am very jolly -- and ever your affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bray, [London], 5 March 1853, 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/93153