Mark Pattison to GE, London, 18 January 1879
Title
Mark Pattison to GE, London, 18 January 1879
Title
Mark Pattison to GE, London, 18 January 1879
Sender
Mark Pattison
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1879-01-18
Place
London
Letter Content
Mark Pattison to GE, London, 18 January 1879
MS: Balliol College, Oxford.
Athenaeum Club | Pall Mall.
S.W. 18 January | 1879.
Dear Mrs. Lewes
I have forborne to intrude upon your sorrow with a letter, hitherto, because, under such circumstances, anything which one can write has an air of formality and conventionalism, even when the sympathy is most sincere.
I cannot, however, bear that you should think that I have been unmindful of you all this time. I may safely say not a day passes, but a thought of you comes across me.
Nor am I myself without a special share in the common loss of all of us. For the last few years no one's word of approval has been more to me than Mr. Lewes' -- I have had the feeling that however others might miss the point of any allusion, there was one friendly house in which every word would be taken in as it was meant. 477
I hear you see no one; so that I will not attempt to call. I only send this sheet in the hope that you may receive a momentary satisfaction from such assurance of remembrance and sympathy as can be offered by one who is
Your sincere friend
Mark Pattison.
MS: Balliol College, Oxford.
Athenaeum Club | Pall Mall.
S.W. 18 January | 1879.
Dear Mrs. Lewes
I have forborne to intrude upon your sorrow with a letter, hitherto, because, under such circumstances, anything which one can write has an air of formality and conventionalism, even when the sympathy is most sincere.
I cannot, however, bear that you should think that I have been unmindful of you all this time. I may safely say not a day passes, but a thought of you comes across me.
Nor am I myself without a special share in the common loss of all of us. For the last few years no one's word of approval has been more to me than Mr. Lewes' -- I have had the feeling that however others might miss the point of any allusion, there was one friendly house in which every word would be taken in as it was meant. 477
I hear you see no one; so that I will not attempt to call. I only send this sheet in the hope that you may receive a momentary satisfaction from such assurance of remembrance and sympathy as can be offered by one who is
Your sincere friend
Mark Pattison.
Signature
Mark Pattison.
Citation
Mark Pattison, Mark Pattison to GE, London, 18 January 1879, 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/95534