GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Wandsworth, [21 March 1859]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Wandsworth, [21 March 1859]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Wandsworth, [21 March 1859]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1859-03-21
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Wandsworth, [21 March 1859]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: March 21st 1859. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Monday Morning.
Dear Cara
I am very grateful to you for your exertions on my behalf -- quite as grateful, though not so glad, as if they had issued in any happy result. We are taking active measures ourselves to procure a new servant, and I hope this week will bring us some auspicious change. Caroline, the Disappointing, is not to be entertained as anything but a (very expensive) makeshift.
My cold is well now, and I am taking a tonic to which I trust for giving me some strength of mind and body in which I am deplorably deficient. Mr. Lewes, too, is more than usually infirm of head 73 [Bottom of page cut away.] me mine. So that we are not in that unctuous and insolent state of enjoyment that must necessarily draw down on us the envy of the Gods -- else one might understand our bad luck with the servant.
[Signature cut away.]
Mrs. Bray.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: March 21st 1859. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Monday Morning.
Dear Cara
I am very grateful to you for your exertions on my behalf -- quite as grateful, though not so glad, as if they had issued in any happy result. We are taking active measures ourselves to procure a new servant, and I hope this week will bring us some auspicious change. Caroline, the Disappointing, is not to be entertained as anything but a (very expensive) makeshift.
My cold is well now, and I am taking a tonic to which I trust for giving me some strength of mind and body in which I am deplorably deficient. Mr. Lewes, too, is more than usually infirm of head 73 [Bottom of page cut away.] me mine. So that we are not in that unctuous and insolent state of enjoyment that must necessarily draw down on us the envy of the Gods -- else one might understand our bad luck with the servant.
[Signature cut away.]
Mrs. Bray.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Wandsworth, [21 March 1859], 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/93327