Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 9 November 1879
Title
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 9 November 1879
Title
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 9 November 1879
Sender
Edith Simcox
Recipient
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Date(s)
- 1879-11-09
Place
London
Letter Content
Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 9 November 1879
MS: Bodleian.
Sunday 9 November 1879
November 9. . . . I wrote to Her a report of the election proceedings 504 up to Friday and last night had a word of thanks to say it had amused her. I saw her on Tuesday having settled to leave Sunday and Monday for rest. She was looking much better and said the constant care of the local doctor had been much in her favour. She had not seen or heard much in detail about Dr. Roy 505 yet. She had been to the Cemetery that day and was disappointed with the ivy and the place of the grave. She had been vexed, as I feared at the well-meant blundering way of the article in the New Quarterly -- which she said was written by a clever man and a friend. 506 "Don Garcia in England" had been sent her with an inscription, she thought because of one sentence about him. She spoke of the difficulty, after living an ideal life -- thinking of things and people as they might be -- to come back into the real world and exercise the virtues one had been dreaming about; and she assented without demur to my remark as above, that one's charity was warmest when least tried. But I must try not to let her worry herself with the thought she ought to do more than she likes or can. I shall go again -- if possible on Wednesday straight after the nomination if there is any contest.
MS: Bodleian.
Sunday 9 November 1879
November 9. . . . I wrote to Her a report of the election proceedings 504 up to Friday and last night had a word of thanks to say it had amused her. I saw her on Tuesday having settled to leave Sunday and Monday for rest. She was looking much better and said the constant care of the local doctor had been much in her favour. She had not seen or heard much in detail about Dr. Roy 505 yet. She had been to the Cemetery that day and was disappointed with the ivy and the place of the grave. She had been vexed, as I feared at the well-meant blundering way of the article in the New Quarterly -- which she said was written by a clever man and a friend. 506 "Don Garcia in England" had been sent her with an inscription, she thought because of one sentence about him. She spoke of the difficulty, after living an ideal life -- thinking of things and people as they might be -- to come back into the real world and exercise the virtues one had been dreaming about; and she assented without demur to my remark as above, that one's charity was warmest when least tried. But I must try not to let her worry herself with the thought she ought to do more than she likes or can. I shall go again -- if possible on Wednesday straight after the nomination if there is any contest.
Citation
Edith Simcox, Edith Simcox, Autobiography, 9 November 1879, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91816