GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, December 1842](2)
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, December 1842](2)
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, December 1842](2)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1842-12
Place
Foleshill
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, December 1842](2)
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, 1, 120-121, as part of the preceding letter to Mrs. Bray.
My dearest Friend,
I shall avenge myself on Fate by and bye for keeping me away from you so long, and you so poorly as I hear you are. I have had a visitor 466 ever since Saturday, and she will stay till Saturday again. I will tell you simple truth I could be with you to-morrow evening, that is if you would have my companion, but I should enjoy the pleasure much better another week.
I cannot desire that you should unask Violin and Flute, 467 unless a postponement would be in every way as agreeable to you and them. If you have them you will give them much more pleasure as Piano than I, so do not think of me in the matter for a moment. Good bye, and remember to nurse yourself 468 and treat your cold "as if it were an orphan's cold, or a widow's cold, or any one's cold but your own."
Your faithful
Mary Ann.
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, 1, 120-121, as part of the preceding letter to Mrs. Bray.
My dearest Friend,
I shall avenge myself on Fate by and bye for keeping me away from you so long, and you so poorly as I hear you are. I have had a visitor 466 ever since Saturday, and she will stay till Saturday again. I will tell you simple truth I could be with you to-morrow evening, that is if you would have my companion, but I should enjoy the pleasure much better another week.
I cannot desire that you should unask Violin and Flute, 467 unless a postponement would be in every way as agreeable to you and them. If you have them you will give them much more pleasure as Piano than I, so do not think of me in the matter for a moment. Good bye, and remember to nurse yourself 468 and treat your cold "as if it were an orphan's cold, or a widow's cold, or any one's cold but your own."
Your faithful
Mary Ann.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [Foleshill, December 1842](2), 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/93208