GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Witley, 13 October 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Witley, 13 October 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Witley, 13 October 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1880-10-13
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Witley, 13 October 1880
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 160-161.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
October 1880.
Dearest Elma
I trust that you received the letter I sent to your Matlock address. I have been putting off writing to you because I have been rather ill and did not want you to know it. But now, I hunger to have news of you and to know whether you have found at Malvern the conditions you need. Dear Mrs. Menzies wrote to me with a kind present of game and she told me that you had been disgusted with Matlock. I trust you have found a doctor at Malvern who is as little as possible of a charlatan. Do, dear, return good for anything you may esteem evil in me by sending me a full true and particular account of yourself.
And think of me as if I were under the charge of angels, for I have more tenderness given to me than could belong to one angel. It takes a strong man to be perfectly tender -- a strong man who has known what it is to suffer.
We shall both see the outside of your very [Kenspeckle] 488 letter with expectant interest. I am not strong yet and am contemptibly tired with any little exertion, so I wind up my shabby note without waiting to see if I can mend it by additions.
Thine, dear, always,
M. A. Cross.
Mr. Cross desires me to offer his best regards.
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 160-161.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
October 1880.
Dearest Elma
I trust that you received the letter I sent to your Matlock address. I have been putting off writing to you because I have been rather ill and did not want you to know it. But now, I hunger to have news of you and to know whether you have found at Malvern the conditions you need. Dear Mrs. Menzies wrote to me with a kind present of game and she told me that you had been disgusted with Matlock. I trust you have found a doctor at Malvern who is as little as possible of a charlatan. Do, dear, return good for anything you may esteem evil in me by sending me a full true and particular account of yourself.
And think of me as if I were under the charge of angels, for I have more tenderness given to me than could belong to one angel. It takes a strong man to be perfectly tender -- a strong man who has known what it is to suffer.
We shall both see the outside of your very [Kenspeckle] 488 letter with expectant interest. I am not strong yet and am contemptibly tired with any little exertion, so I wind up my shabby note without waiting to see if I can mend it by additions.
Thine, dear, always,
M. A. Cross.
Mr. Cross desires me to offer his best regards.
Signature
M. A. Cross.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Witley, 13 October 1880, 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/93424