GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, 12 March 1842]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, 12 March 1842]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, 12 March 1842]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1842-03-12
Place
Foleshill
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, 12 March 1842]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1842. Extract published: Cross, I, 104-105, dated January 1842.
My dear Mrs. Bray,
My guardian angel Mrs. Pears has just sent for me to hear your kind note, which has done my aching limbs a little good. I shall be most thankful for the opportunity of going to Leamington, 414 and Mrs. Pears is willing to go too. Since my morning's conversation with Mrs. P. I have been meditating on her kind plan of seeking an interview with my father, and owing to feelings and circumstances impossible for me to communicate fully, I am persuaded that the attempt to influence him would be unwise and could issue in no real good to any. I am unusually muddy to-night, and must wait for to-morrow to tell you more if even your benevolent ears are not weary of me and my woes -- but woes I will not call them, there is but one woe, that of leaving my dear Father. All else, doleful lodgings, scanty meals, and gazing-stockism 415 are quite indifferent to me. Therefore do not fear for me when I am once posited in my home, wherever it may be, and freed from wretched suspense.
Ever your grateful and affectionate
Mary Ann Evans.
We will be at your house by 10 o'clock.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1842. Extract published: Cross, I, 104-105, dated January 1842.
My dear Mrs. Bray,
My guardian angel Mrs. Pears has just sent for me to hear your kind note, which has done my aching limbs a little good. I shall be most thankful for the opportunity of going to Leamington, 414 and Mrs. Pears is willing to go too. Since my morning's conversation with Mrs. P. I have been meditating on her kind plan of seeking an interview with my father, and owing to feelings and circumstances impossible for me to communicate fully, I am persuaded that the attempt to influence him would be unwise and could issue in no real good to any. I am unusually muddy to-night, and must wait for to-morrow to tell you more if even your benevolent ears are not weary of me and my woes -- but woes I will not call them, there is but one woe, that of leaving my dear Father. All else, doleful lodgings, scanty meals, and gazing-stockism 415 are quite indifferent to me. Therefore do not fear for me when I am once posited in my home, wherever it may be, and freed from wretched suspense.
Ever your grateful and affectionate
Mary Ann Evans.
We will be at your house by 10 o'clock.
Signature
Mary Ann Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, 12 March 1842], 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/93204