GE to Mrs. Nassau John Senior, Redhill, 1 July 1872
Title
GE to Mrs. Nassau John Senior, Redhill, 1 July 1872
Title
GE to Mrs. Nassau John Senior, Redhill, 1 July 1872
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Nassau John Senior
Date(s)
- 1872-07-01
Place
Redhill
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Nassau John Senior, Redhill, 1 July 1872
Text: Copy at Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Elversley, | Park Rd., | Redhill | July 1. 1872.
My dear friend,
You have very often been in my mind, because, you know, I count you among those who will always be dear to me, but of course I have been in blank ignorance about all that has been happening to you since we had our few hours together.
You are paying part of the great price for the blessing of being able to love those near to you. It is of no use to offer words under such a trial. Comfort will gradually come in your activity for others, which never leaves you long in the power of your own particular lot. Some day I shall ask you to tell me all about your family. I mean the family of Hughes, 551 for I don't half know what I should like to know about it.
We are most comfortably settled in perfect peace, with two of our own servants to take care of us, and the loveliest wooded undulating country around us. Our house is not in the least elegant, but it is convenient enough, stands in a quiet spot, quite away from carts and carriages, and has a large garden bounded by meadows.
I am marvellously renovated by the perfect rest from little outward excitements, and am really getting strong. We have taken our house to the end of August, and after that we shall probably go abroad for a month or so.
Mr. Lewes has just come in from an excursion to Weybridge, 552 and has been listening to your letter. He looks very bright, and I hope will now go on well, but hitherto since he has been down here he has been teazed with singing in the ears and languor. He sends his brotherly love, which I am sure you will not reject.
I am thinking anxiously now of our dear Gertrude, who is going to have her baby this month; she has been going on beautifully, and I trust the poor thing will at last have her maternal heart soothed by a living child.
Pray don't tell anybody our address, we want to be absolutely solitary here. With best regards to Mr. Senior,
Always, dear friend, yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Text: Copy at Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Elversley, | Park Rd., | Redhill | July 1. 1872.
My dear friend,
You have very often been in my mind, because, you know, I count you among those who will always be dear to me, but of course I have been in blank ignorance about all that has been happening to you since we had our few hours together.
You are paying part of the great price for the blessing of being able to love those near to you. It is of no use to offer words under such a trial. Comfort will gradually come in your activity for others, which never leaves you long in the power of your own particular lot. Some day I shall ask you to tell me all about your family. I mean the family of Hughes, 551 for I don't half know what I should like to know about it.
We are most comfortably settled in perfect peace, with two of our own servants to take care of us, and the loveliest wooded undulating country around us. Our house is not in the least elegant, but it is convenient enough, stands in a quiet spot, quite away from carts and carriages, and has a large garden bounded by meadows.
I am marvellously renovated by the perfect rest from little outward excitements, and am really getting strong. We have taken our house to the end of August, and after that we shall probably go abroad for a month or so.
Mr. Lewes has just come in from an excursion to Weybridge, 552 and has been listening to your letter. He looks very bright, and I hope will now go on well, but hitherto since he has been down here he has been teazed with singing in the ears and languor. He sends his brotherly love, which I am sure you will not reject.
I am thinking anxiously now of our dear Gertrude, who is going to have her baby this month; she has been going on beautifully, and I trust the poor thing will at last have her maternal heart soothed by a living child.
Pray don't tell anybody our address, we want to be absolutely solitary here. With best regards to Mr. Senior,
Always, dear friend, yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Nassau John Senior, Redhill, 1 July 1872, 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/93567