GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [18 April 1854]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [18 April 1854]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [18 April 1854]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1854-04-18
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [18 April 1854]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 18. 1854. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 321-322.
Cambridge St. | Saturday.
Dear Cara
I was delighted to have a letter from you, but I am not able to answer it as it deserves, for I am rather overdone with the week's work and the prospect of what is to come next. Poor Lewes is ill and is ordered not to put pen to paper for a month, so I have something to do for him in addition to my own work which is rather pressing. 455 He is gone to Arthur Helps in Hampshire 456 for ten days, and I really hope this total cessation from work in obedience to a peremptory order will end in making him better than he has been for the last year.
I am glad to hear that Mr. Noel is safe in spite of the disturbances 457 which were a reasonable ground of anxiety. -- I confess, however that I care more about Coventry ribbons than Greek insurrections, and I am not sure that a success against the Russians would cause me half as much joy as a satisfactory stocktaking. Chrissey writes me word that you are so good as to send her a paper constantly. Her two boys seem to be in prospect of satisfactory situations -- one at Birmingham and the other at Leicester, and I hope her eldest girl will go to school at Mid-summer. She will then have only Charlie who goes to the Grammar school and her two tiny pets at home. 458
Tell Sara that the MS.S. came all right. She must forgive me for omitting to say so. Mr. and Mrs. Pears I thought looking remarkably young and well. It was really a pleasure to see them.
Mr. Chapman has at length decided to leave his house at Midsummer. Mrs. C. came yesterday to look at a house in Cambridge St.! But I think it will be too expensive.
No opera and no fun for me for the next month! Happily I shall have no time to regret it. Plenty of bright sun on your anemone bed. How lovely your place must look with its fresh leaves!
Love to all from your ever affectionate
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 18. 1854. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 321-322.
Cambridge St. | Saturday.
Dear Cara
I was delighted to have a letter from you, but I am not able to answer it as it deserves, for I am rather overdone with the week's work and the prospect of what is to come next. Poor Lewes is ill and is ordered not to put pen to paper for a month, so I have something to do for him in addition to my own work which is rather pressing. 455 He is gone to Arthur Helps in Hampshire 456 for ten days, and I really hope this total cessation from work in obedience to a peremptory order will end in making him better than he has been for the last year.
I am glad to hear that Mr. Noel is safe in spite of the disturbances 457 which were a reasonable ground of anxiety. -- I confess, however that I care more about Coventry ribbons than Greek insurrections, and I am not sure that a success against the Russians would cause me half as much joy as a satisfactory stocktaking. Chrissey writes me word that you are so good as to send her a paper constantly. Her two boys seem to be in prospect of satisfactory situations -- one at Birmingham and the other at Leicester, and I hope her eldest girl will go to school at Mid-summer. She will then have only Charlie who goes to the Grammar school and her two tiny pets at home. 458
Tell Sara that the MS.S. came all right. She must forgive me for omitting to say so. Mr. and Mrs. Pears I thought looking remarkably young and well. It was really a pleasure to see them.
Mr. Chapman has at length decided to leave his house at Midsummer. Mrs. C. came yesterday to look at a house in Cambridge St.! But I think it will be too expensive.
No opera and no fun for me for the next month! Happily I shall have no time to regret it. Plenty of bright sun on your anemone bed. How lovely your place must look with its fresh leaves!
Love to all from your ever affectionate
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [18 April 1854], 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/93247