GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 23 August [1869]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 23 August [1869]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 23 August [1869]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1869-08-23
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 23 August [1869]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1868. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 23.
My dear Cara
I am much easier now I have news of you. I beseech you not to let the lawyer's bill be in any way a trouble to you and Mr. Bray. If it is anything that in the least hampers you, let me meet it. You know I desire this.
"The true Story of Lady Byron's Life," you see, is to appear in the next "McMillan." 98 You will probably have that in your hands. If not, I will send you the loose sheet. I, in my total ignorance of the inner facts, was more prepared to feel with Lady Byron, than you seem to be, who know much of her through her intimate friends. 99 Byron and his poetry have become more and more repugnant to me of late years (I read a good deal of him a little while ago, 100 in order to form a fresh judgment). As to this story, I cannot help being sorry that it seemed necessary to publish what is only worthy to die and rot. After all Byron remains deeply pitiable, like all of us sinners.
I have thought with interest of poor Mrs. Dallas, 101 since I heard of her determination to go to America -- if she could raise £800! She seems to have shewn a praiseworthy energy under all her troubles, always doing what she could to earn an honest living. The Sp[anish] Gypsy has had a very large sale in America -- so she might possibly find some favour for it in an audience there. I should only be glad if it would give her readings a little acceptable novelty.
Our own health has been feeble lately -- and I have been at a lower ebb than usual. But otherwise, Thornie is our only trouble.
Please give my love to Miss Marshall, and tell her that I am always bearing her in mind as one of our kind friends. Best love to Sara -- and some headshaking at her tendency to work too hard. Ought she not rather to be thinking of an autumn holiday? Only write when you have something to tell me -- not simply to acknowledge.
Ever thine
Pollian.
Tell Mr. Bray that my head has much fellowship with those aches of his. I don't know anything about the article on Lady Byron in Blackwood. 102 It escaped my observation.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1868. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 23.
My dear Cara
I am much easier now I have news of you. I beseech you not to let the lawyer's bill be in any way a trouble to you and Mr. Bray. If it is anything that in the least hampers you, let me meet it. You know I desire this.
"The true Story of Lady Byron's Life," you see, is to appear in the next "McMillan." 98 You will probably have that in your hands. If not, I will send you the loose sheet. I, in my total ignorance of the inner facts, was more prepared to feel with Lady Byron, than you seem to be, who know much of her through her intimate friends. 99 Byron and his poetry have become more and more repugnant to me of late years (I read a good deal of him a little while ago, 100 in order to form a fresh judgment). As to this story, I cannot help being sorry that it seemed necessary to publish what is only worthy to die and rot. After all Byron remains deeply pitiable, like all of us sinners.
I have thought with interest of poor Mrs. Dallas, 101 since I heard of her determination to go to America -- if she could raise £800! She seems to have shewn a praiseworthy energy under all her troubles, always doing what she could to earn an honest living. The Sp[anish] Gypsy has had a very large sale in America -- so she might possibly find some favour for it in an audience there. I should only be glad if it would give her readings a little acceptable novelty.
Our own health has been feeble lately -- and I have been at a lower ebb than usual. But otherwise, Thornie is our only trouble.
Please give my love to Miss Marshall, and tell her that I am always bearing her in mind as one of our kind friends. Best love to Sara -- and some headshaking at her tendency to work too hard. Ought she not rather to be thinking of an autumn holiday? Only write when you have something to tell me -- not simply to acknowledge.
Ever thine
Pollian.
Tell Mr. Bray that my head has much fellowship with those aches of his. I don't know anything about the article on Lady Byron in Blackwood. 102 It escaped my observation.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 23 August [1869], 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/93289