GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, September? 1844]
Title
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, September? 1844]
Title
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, September? 1844]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton
Date(s)
- 1844-09
Place
Foleshill
Letter Content
GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, September? 1844]
MS: Yale.
My dear Fanny,
What could give you the idea that Father was going into Kent this week? I hope I did not mislead you. It is next week that he goes but alas! I fear I cannot take more than a day of it for Leamington for I must give one day to Chrissey whom I have not seen for a long, long time, and I have promised to go to Griff as an amende for failing to go thither with Father this morning. I am ashamed to make so much fuss about my visits, but wo is me! life slips away between headaches and eating and chitchat and one does nothing. A lodge in some vast wilderness is the only tempting thing.
I think Wednesday will be the day when I may hope to be with you, but tell Henry not to buy a melon even though he should get it for 6d.
It is very good of you to wish to have me, and I am very grateful for your love -- more grateful and humble than my words seem to shew, but the essence of friendship is confidence, which does without fine speeches.
Every your affectionate
Mary Ann.
MS: Yale.
My dear Fanny,
What could give you the idea that Father was going into Kent this week? I hope I did not mislead you. It is next week that he goes but alas! I fear I cannot take more than a day of it for Leamington for I must give one day to Chrissey whom I have not seen for a long, long time, and I have promised to go to Griff as an amende for failing to go thither with Father this morning. I am ashamed to make so much fuss about my visits, but wo is me! life slips away between headaches and eating and chitchat and one does nothing. A lodge in some vast wilderness is the only tempting thing.
I think Wednesday will be the day when I may hope to be with you, but tell Henry not to buy a melon even though he should get it for 6d.
It is very good of you to wish to have me, and I am very grateful for your love -- more grateful and humble than my words seem to shew, but the essence of friendship is confidence, which does without fine speeches.
Every your affectionate
Mary Ann.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Fanny [Mrs. Henry] Houghton, [Foleshill, September? 1844], 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/93482