GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, Earlswood Common, 3 July 1874
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, Earlswood Common, 3 July 1874
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, Earlswood Common, 3 July 1874
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Mark Pattison
Date(s)
- 1874-07-03
Place
Earlswood Common
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, Earlswood Common, 3 July 1874
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Cottage | Earlswood Common | July 3. 74.
Dear Figliuolina
We retired from the world on the 2d of June and are to remain in strict religious retreat here till the end of September. Our souls and bodies are much the better for it.
I waft you a kiss and a blessing. I received your pretty note, but trusted to your comprehension of silence as that of an aged person to whom the necessity of answering letters is the worst of Grasshoppers. 120 Of course I like to receive them, so please let yourself be numbered among the loving creatures who give me in this kind, asking for nothing again.
We drive about in this enchanting country looking at all the promising houses that are to let, having concluded that we should like to have a fixed summer retreat hereabout.
I hope the Rector is dismissing his proof sheets 121 and is as well as can be expected under these circumstances.
I was ill when I came down, but have not for a long while been so well as I am now. Mr. Lewes is gone to town on business this morning, and I am going to have a windy walk by myself. This Common, I suppose, was considered a bracing place for the idiots 122 -- which may account for my being so well here.
Faithfully and affectionately yours
M. E. L.
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Cottage | Earlswood Common | July 3. 74.
Dear Figliuolina
We retired from the world on the 2d of June and are to remain in strict religious retreat here till the end of September. Our souls and bodies are much the better for it.
I waft you a kiss and a blessing. I received your pretty note, but trusted to your comprehension of silence as that of an aged person to whom the necessity of answering letters is the worst of Grasshoppers. 120 Of course I like to receive them, so please let yourself be numbered among the loving creatures who give me in this kind, asking for nothing again.
We drive about in this enchanting country looking at all the promising houses that are to let, having concluded that we should like to have a fixed summer retreat hereabout.
I hope the Rector is dismissing his proof sheets 121 and is as well as can be expected under these circumstances.
I was ill when I came down, but have not for a long while been so well as I am now. Mr. Lewes is gone to town on business this morning, and I am going to have a windy walk by myself. This Common, I suppose, was considered a bracing place for the idiots 122 -- which may account for my being so well here.
Faithfully and affectionately yours
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, Earlswood Common, 3 July 1874, 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/93527