GE Journal, London, 28 November 1860
Title
GE Journal, London, 28 November 1860
Title
GE Journal, London, 28 November 1860
Sender
Ge Journal
Recipient
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Date(s)
- 1860-11-28
Place
London
Letter Content
GE Journal, London, 28 November 1860
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, II, 279-281.
November 28.
Since I last wrote in this journal I have suffered much from physical weakness accompanied with mental depression. The loss of the country has seemed very bitter to me, and my want of health and strength has prevented me from working much -- still worse, has made me despair of ever working well again. I am getting better now by the help of tonics, and I should be better still if I could gather more bravery, resignation and simplicity of striving. In the meantime my cup is full of blessings: my home is bright and warm with love and tenderness, and in more material vulgar matters we are very fortunate. I have invested £2000 in East Indies Stock, and expect shortly to invest another £2000, so that with my other money, we have enough in any case to keep us from beggary.
Last Tuesday, the 20th, we had a pleasant evening. Anthony Trollope dined with us, and made us like him very much by his straightforward, wholesome Wesen. Afterwards Mr. Helps came in, and the talk was extremely agreeable. He told me the Queen had been speaking to him in great admiration of my books, especially the Mill on the Floss. It is interesting to know that Royalty can be touched by that sort of writing -- and I was grateful to Mr. Helps for his wish to tell me of the sympathy given to me in that quarter. 664
Today I have had a letter from M. d'Albert, saying that at last the French edition of Adam Bede is published. He pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."
I am engaged now in writing a story, the idea of which came to me after our arrival in this house, and which has thrust itself between me and the other book I was meditating. It is "Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe." I am still only at about the 62d page, for I have written slowly and interruptedly of late.
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, II, 279-281.
November 28.
Since I last wrote in this journal I have suffered much from physical weakness accompanied with mental depression. The loss of the country has seemed very bitter to me, and my want of health and strength has prevented me from working much -- still worse, has made me despair of ever working well again. I am getting better now by the help of tonics, and I should be better still if I could gather more bravery, resignation and simplicity of striving. In the meantime my cup is full of blessings: my home is bright and warm with love and tenderness, and in more material vulgar matters we are very fortunate. I have invested £2000 in East Indies Stock, and expect shortly to invest another £2000, so that with my other money, we have enough in any case to keep us from beggary.
Last Tuesday, the 20th, we had a pleasant evening. Anthony Trollope dined with us, and made us like him very much by his straightforward, wholesome Wesen. Afterwards Mr. Helps came in, and the talk was extremely agreeable. He told me the Queen had been speaking to him in great admiration of my books, especially the Mill on the Floss. It is interesting to know that Royalty can be touched by that sort of writing -- and I was grateful to Mr. Helps for his wish to tell me of the sympathy given to me in that quarter. 664
Today I have had a letter from M. d'Albert, saying that at last the French edition of Adam Bede is published. He pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."
I am engaged now in writing a story, the idea of which came to me after our arrival in this house, and which has thrust itself between me and the other book I was meditating. It is "Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe." I am still only at about the 62d page, for I have written slowly and interruptedly of late.
Citation
Ge Journal, GE Journal, London, 28 November 1860, 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/91925