GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 6 March 1852
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 6 March 1852
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 6 March 1852
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor
Date(s)
- 1852-03-06
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 6 March 1852
Text: Cross, 1, 272-273.
I can sympathise with you in your troubles, having been a house-keeper myself, and known disappointment in trusted servants. 39 Ah, well! we have a good share of the benefits of our civilisation; it is but fair that we should feel some of the burthen of its imperfections.
Thank you a thousand times for wishing to see me again. I should really like to see you in your own nice, fresh, healthy-looking home again; but until the end of March I fear I shall be a prisoner from the necessity for constant work. Still it is possible that I may have a day, though I am quite unable to say when.
You will be still more surprised at the notice of the [Westminster] in [The People,] when you know that Maccoll 40 himself wrote it. I have not seen it, but had been told of its ill-nature. However, he is too good a man to write otherwise than sincerely; and our opinion of a book often depends on the state of the liver!
Text: Cross, 1, 272-273.
I can sympathise with you in your troubles, having been a house-keeper myself, and known disappointment in trusted servants. 39 Ah, well! we have a good share of the benefits of our civilisation; it is but fair that we should feel some of the burthen of its imperfections.
Thank you a thousand times for wishing to see me again. I should really like to see you in your own nice, fresh, healthy-looking home again; but until the end of March I fear I shall be a prisoner from the necessity for constant work. Still it is possible that I may have a day, though I am quite unable to say when.
You will be still more surprised at the notice of the [Westminster] in [The People,] when you know that Maccoll 40 himself wrote it. I have not seen it, but had been told of its ill-nature. However, he is too good a man to write otherwise than sincerely; and our opinion of a book often depends on the state of the liver!
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 6 March 1852, 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/93596