GE to Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields, London, 19 February 1879
Title
GE to Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields, London, 19 February 1879
Title
GE to Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields, London, 19 February 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields
Date(s)
- 1879-02-19
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields, London, 19 February 1879
MS: Harvard. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory | 21 North Bank | Regents Park | February 19. 175 79.
My dear Mrs. Fields
The book by Mrs. Child is not yet come. 176 When it arrives I will write to her. But since I dare not count on my health just now, will you in the mean time express to the venerable Lady my deep and reverent sense of her goodness in writing words so full of spiritual encouragement to me? If I could have joy in anything now, such letters as hers would be one source of it.
Thank you, dear Mrs. Fields, for your tender sympathy. I trust you and your husband are well and happy. That is the best that is left to me -- to know that others are leading a life of loving union.
You would help me very much, if you happened to be writing to our dear Mrs. Stowe, and would tell her, with my love, that her goodness has not been thrown away on me, and that I hope to write to her some time. But I am very far from well in body and therefore doubly anxious lest I should not be able to do what I have before me as an immediate duty.
I feel affectionately grateful to her -- to Mrs. Stowe and her husband, for their generous warm-hearted sympathy, a gift now of many years from them. Ask Mr. Fields to accept my kind regards and believe me
Yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Harvard. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory | 21 North Bank | Regents Park | February 19. 175 79.
My dear Mrs. Fields
The book by Mrs. Child is not yet come. 176 When it arrives I will write to her. But since I dare not count on my health just now, will you in the mean time express to the venerable Lady my deep and reverent sense of her goodness in writing words so full of spiritual encouragement to me? If I could have joy in anything now, such letters as hers would be one source of it.
Thank you, dear Mrs. Fields, for your tender sympathy. I trust you and your husband are well and happy. That is the best that is left to me -- to know that others are leading a life of loving union.
You would help me very much, if you happened to be writing to our dear Mrs. Stowe, and would tell her, with my love, that her goodness has not been thrown away on me, and that I hope to write to her some time. But I am very far from well in body and therefore doubly anxious lest I should not be able to do what I have before me as an immediate duty.
I feel affectionately grateful to her -- to Mrs. Stowe and her husband, for their generous warm-hearted sympathy, a gift now of many years from them. Ask Mr. Fields to accept my kind regards and believe me
Yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Annie [Mrs. James T.] Fields, London, 19 February 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/93511