GE to Mrs. Albert Druce, Witley, 20 August 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Albert Druce, Witley, 20 August 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Albert Druce, Witley, 20 August 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Albert Druce
Date(s)
- 1880-08-20
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Albert Druce, Witley, 20 August 1880
Text: Copy by Miss Elsie Druce, who owns the MS. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 20. 80.
My dear Anna
I think you will be glad to have a sign that we are alive and well after our double railway journey from your green paradise. Willie came to see us the next day and thought well of Johnnie's looks, but there is still a line in the cheek which I long to see raised into smoothness.
Yesterday was a town day, and we felt it a luxury this morning to hear the daily bread train pause and puff in entire indifference to its services. I meet him at Godalming on his way home from town, so that he has a nice airy drive after the heat and vibration of the train.
Perhaps too, after our discussion about the weight of the Brain, you will like to know that Cuvier's brain (the heaviest yet weighed) was 1830 grammes, or about 3'be lbs, and that the average weight of the human brain is in man, 1410 grammes and in woman 1262 grs. 469
Our visit to you is among my happy thoughts, notwithstanding the lumbago (which however seems to be finishing its ill-timed visit), and I am sure that Johnnie is the better for it.
Our love to Albert and all the pretty young ones.
Your affectionate sister
M. A. Cross.
Text: Copy by Miss Elsie Druce, who owns the MS. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 20. 80.
My dear Anna
I think you will be glad to have a sign that we are alive and well after our double railway journey from your green paradise. Willie came to see us the next day and thought well of Johnnie's looks, but there is still a line in the cheek which I long to see raised into smoothness.
Yesterday was a town day, and we felt it a luxury this morning to hear the daily bread train pause and puff in entire indifference to its services. I meet him at Godalming on his way home from town, so that he has a nice airy drive after the heat and vibration of the train.
Perhaps too, after our discussion about the weight of the Brain, you will like to know that Cuvier's brain (the heaviest yet weighed) was 1830 grammes, or about 3'be lbs, and that the average weight of the human brain is in man, 1410 grammes and in woman 1262 grs. 469
Our visit to you is among my happy thoughts, notwithstanding the lumbago (which however seems to be finishing its ill-timed visit), and I am sure that Johnnie is the better for it.
Our love to Albert and all the pretty young ones.
Your affectionate sister
M. A. Cross.
Signature
M. A. Cross.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Albert Druce, Witley, 20 August 1880, 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/93189