GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, January 1847]
Title
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, January 1847]
Title
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, January 1847]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton
Date(s)
- 1847-01
Place
Foleshill
Letter Content
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, January 1847]
MS: Miss Dorothy Evans. Hitherto unpublished.
Dear Fanny
How are you amidst frost and snow and influenza? I think of you the more than if I had seen you lately. Visiting is out of the question in this ungenial weather, unless you and Henry will come and share our fires for a few days. Ever since Christmas there has been some weekly preventive to my proposing this (to us) agreeable plan. Father or I or the servants have been ailing and we have had Miss Lewis 651 with us. If you will not come, at least let me know how you are, for your image positively haunts me and I must take some measure for laying the ghost even if it be shivering all the way to Leamington and back in the same day if nothing else will serve. My longer visit I believe must remain in reserve for me with the cuckoo and other pleasant spring things.
Ever your affectionate
Mary Ann.
MS: Miss Dorothy Evans. Hitherto unpublished.
Dear Fanny
How are you amidst frost and snow and influenza? I think of you the more than if I had seen you lately. Visiting is out of the question in this ungenial weather, unless you and Henry will come and share our fires for a few days. Ever since Christmas there has been some weekly preventive to my proposing this (to us) agreeable plan. Father or I or the servants have been ailing and we have had Miss Lewis 651 with us. If you will not come, at least let me know how you are, for your image positively haunts me and I must take some measure for laying the ghost even if it be shivering all the way to Leamington and back in the same day if nothing else will serve. My longer visit I believe must remain in reserve for me with the cuckoo and other pleasant spring things.
Ever your affectionate
Mary Ann.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, January 1847], 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/93476