GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Blackbrook, 12 October 1873
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Blackbrook, 12 October 1873
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Blackbrook, 12 October 1873
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor
Date(s)
- 1873-10-12
Place
Blackbrook
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Blackbrook, 12 October 1873
Text: Cross, III, 214-215.
Our plan is not to give up our London house, but to have a country place as a retreat. We want a good house in a lovely country, away from rows of villas, but within easy reach of all conveniences. This seems an immodest requirement in a world where one good is hardly to be got without renunciation of another. You perceive that we are getting very old and fastidious.
I like to interpret your enjoyment of Brighton 856 and its evening skies as a proof that you flourish there physically. All things are to be endured and counted even as a fuller life, with a body free from pain and depressing sensations of weakness; but illness is a partial death, and makes the world dim to us.
We have no great strength to boast of; but we are so unspeakably happy in all other respects, that we cannot grumble at this tax on us as elderly mortals.
Our little Blanche grows in grace, and her parents have great delight in her -- Charles being quite as fond a father as if he had beforehand been an idoliser of babies.
Text: Cross, III, 214-215.
Our plan is not to give up our London house, but to have a country place as a retreat. We want a good house in a lovely country, away from rows of villas, but within easy reach of all conveniences. This seems an immodest requirement in a world where one good is hardly to be got without renunciation of another. You perceive that we are getting very old and fastidious.
I like to interpret your enjoyment of Brighton 856 and its evening skies as a proof that you flourish there physically. All things are to be endured and counted even as a fuller life, with a body free from pain and depressing sensations of weakness; but illness is a partial death, and makes the world dim to us.
We have no great strength to boast of; but we are so unspeakably happy in all other respects, that we cannot grumble at this tax on us as elderly mortals.
Our little Blanche grows in grace, and her parents have great delight in her -- Charles being quite as fond a father as if he had beforehand been an idoliser of babies.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Blackbrook, 12 October 1873, 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/93568