GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, Witley, 22 July 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, Witley, 22 July 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, Witley, 22 July 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones
Date(s)
- 1879-07-22
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, Witley, 22 July 1879
Text: Cross, III, 373-374.
I feel a perhaps too selfish need to tell you that things have gone ill with me since I last wrote to you. Why do I want to let you know this not agreeable news about myself? Chiefly because I want you to be quite clear that if I do not write to say, "When can you come to me?" it is not from indifference, but from misfortune of another sort. Meanwhile it will do me good to have little items of news from you, when you can find half an hour for the kind deed of writing me a letter. What helps me most is to be told things about others, and your letters are just of the sort I like to have.
I am just now in one of my easier hours, and the demon wind has abated. He seems to enter into my pains with hideous rejoicing.
Text: Cross, III, 373-374.
I feel a perhaps too selfish need to tell you that things have gone ill with me since I last wrote to you. Why do I want to let you know this not agreeable news about myself? Chiefly because I want you to be quite clear that if I do not write to say, "When can you come to me?" it is not from indifference, but from misfortune of another sort. Meanwhile it will do me good to have little items of news from you, when you can find half an hour for the kind deed of writing me a letter. What helps me most is to be told things about others, and your letters are just of the sort I like to have.
I am just now in one of my easier hours, and the demon wind has abated. He seems to enter into my pains with hideous rejoicing.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, Witley, 22 July 1879, 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/93370