GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [London, 11 September 1852]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [London, 11 September 1852]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [London, 11 September 1852]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1852-09-11
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [London, 11 September 1852]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Sep. 11. 1852. Extracts published: Cross, I, 290-291.
Saturday.
Dear Cara
The week has really yielded nothing worth telling you. I am a few degrees more wizened and muddle-headed, and the articles for the Review are on the whole unsatisfactory. I fear a discerning public will think this number a sad falling off. 180
This is the greater pity that said public is patronizing us well at present. Scarcely a day passes that some one does not write to order the Review as a permanent subscriber.
I should think Mr. Bray and Mr. C. have done corresponding now. I have not seen any letters between them lately. It was a vexation to me that Mr. Bray should have applied to Mr. Flower. I felt sure the result would be a negative. But God bless him for that and all his other good deeds.
You may as well expect news from an old spider or bat as from me. I can only tell you what I think of the Blithedale Romance, 181 of Uncle
Tom's Cabin, and the American Fishery Dispute -- all which I am very sure you don't want to know -- any more than Mr. Bray, who says he hates [intellectual gossip.] (I know he doesn't hate unintellectual gossip).
Do have pity on me and make a little variety in my life by all sending me a scrap -- never mind if it be only six lines apiece -- to-morrow. Perhaps something will befal me one day or other -- as it is, nothing happens to me but the ringing of the dinner bell and the arrival of a proof. I have no courage to walk out.
Love to all
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Sep. 11. 1852. Extracts published: Cross, I, 290-291.
Saturday.
Dear Cara
The week has really yielded nothing worth telling you. I am a few degrees more wizened and muddle-headed, and the articles for the Review are on the whole unsatisfactory. I fear a discerning public will think this number a sad falling off. 180
This is the greater pity that said public is patronizing us well at present. Scarcely a day passes that some one does not write to order the Review as a permanent subscriber.
I should think Mr. Bray and Mr. C. have done corresponding now. I have not seen any letters between them lately. It was a vexation to me that Mr. Bray should have applied to Mr. Flower. I felt sure the result would be a negative. But God bless him for that and all his other good deeds.
You may as well expect news from an old spider or bat as from me. I can only tell you what I think of the Blithedale Romance, 181 of Uncle
Tom's Cabin, and the American Fishery Dispute -- all which I am very sure you don't want to know -- any more than Mr. Bray, who says he hates [intellectual gossip.] (I know he doesn't hate unintellectual gossip).
Do have pity on me and make a little variety in my life by all sending me a scrap -- never mind if it be only six lines apiece -- to-morrow. Perhaps something will befal me one day or other -- as it is, nothing happens to me but the ringing of the dinner bell and the arrival of a proof. I have no courage to walk out.
Love to all
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, [London, 11 September 1852], 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/93213