GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Macon and Aix-Les-Bains, 15-16 June 1876
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Macon and Aix-Les-Bains, 15-16 June 1876
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Macon and Aix-Les-Bains, 15-16 June 1876
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1876-06-15–<br /> 1876-06-16
Place
Macon and Aix-Les-Bains
Letter Content
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Macon and Aix-Les-Bains, 15-16 June 1876
Text: Paterson, pp. 169-170.
Macon. | Friday, June 15, 1876.
Dearest Charles,
Just come in tired from our ramble about this town, which closed with a visit to the house where Lamartine 500 was born, I make use of the interval before dinner to send you word of our doings and sufferings.
We gave up our first notion of lingering on our way to Paris in order to be able to go to the Russian church there. When we arrived we were dismayed to find that it was Race week and all the hotels were crowded. After driving about from one hotel to another in an open carriage, the weather being wintry, we at last got good rooms at the H'f4tel des Deux Mondes. Our visit to the Russian church was well worth making a push for. The Archduke Michael 501 and his Duchess were there and had probably brought their own choir. At any rate the singing was more exquisite than any we have ever heard. There was a boy who sustained and died away on one note more like Jenny Lind in her prime.
The Mutter was not well enough for any amusements so we dined cosily at a caf'e9. 502 Next morning we walked to the Poste Restante for the final proofs -- after shopping, both with headaches -- we drove in the Bois de Boulogne for two hours, corrected proofs 503 and went to see "L''c9trang'e8re," a most interesting and engrossing piece and the acting very fine, especially Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt.
H'f4tel de l'Europe, | Aix les Bains. Saturday Afternoon, 4 p.m.
I resume my narrative in our new quarters. The journey here today was delicious -- though long -- six hours. We have had difficulty in getting rooms and must quit them on the 21st. They are extremely pleasant, looking on to a sweet garden and as quiet as one could wish, so the prospect of moving is not agreeable. We are ravished with the aspect of Aix under this delicious light, the air is soft and balmy, the mountains look in upon us through our windows in a most inviting manner, if the baths suit us we shall stay some days. But it is uncertain whether we shall remain in this hotel.
We both long for a little quiet solitude 'e0 deux.
Our love to Gertrude and the chicks.
Your loving
Pater.
Text: Paterson, pp. 169-170.
Macon. | Friday, June 15, 1876.
Dearest Charles,
Just come in tired from our ramble about this town, which closed with a visit to the house where Lamartine 500 was born, I make use of the interval before dinner to send you word of our doings and sufferings.
We gave up our first notion of lingering on our way to Paris in order to be able to go to the Russian church there. When we arrived we were dismayed to find that it was Race week and all the hotels were crowded. After driving about from one hotel to another in an open carriage, the weather being wintry, we at last got good rooms at the H'f4tel des Deux Mondes. Our visit to the Russian church was well worth making a push for. The Archduke Michael 501 and his Duchess were there and had probably brought their own choir. At any rate the singing was more exquisite than any we have ever heard. There was a boy who sustained and died away on one note more like Jenny Lind in her prime.
The Mutter was not well enough for any amusements so we dined cosily at a caf'e9. 502 Next morning we walked to the Poste Restante for the final proofs -- after shopping, both with headaches -- we drove in the Bois de Boulogne for two hours, corrected proofs 503 and went to see "L''c9trang'e8re," a most interesting and engrossing piece and the acting very fine, especially Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt.
H'f4tel de l'Europe, | Aix les Bains. Saturday Afternoon, 4 p.m.
I resume my narrative in our new quarters. The journey here today was delicious -- though long -- six hours. We have had difficulty in getting rooms and must quit them on the 21st. They are extremely pleasant, looking on to a sweet garden and as quiet as one could wish, so the prospect of moving is not agreeable. We are ravished with the aspect of Aix under this delicious light, the air is soft and balmy, the mountains look in upon us through our windows in a most inviting manner, if the baths suit us we shall stay some days. But it is uncertain whether we shall remain in this hotel.
We both long for a little quiet solitude 'e0 deux.
Our love to Gertrude and the chicks.
Your loving
Pater.
Signature
Pater.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Macon and Aix-Les-Bains, 15-16 June 1876, 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/94469