GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875
Title
GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875
Title
GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Alice Helps
Date(s)
- 1875-11-30
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875
MS: Mr. Arthur Helps. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 30. 75.
My dear Alice
Mr. Lewes is to take me, else I should have been glad of your sweet guardianship in going to see [Iolanthe.] 353
I have not been able to deserve your remembrance in any way except by often thinking of you. This I have done, but I have not had ten spare minutes to spend in telling you of it. We came home about the middle of October, but, to our annoyance, found a smell of paint in the drawing room which obliged us to live for three weeks in my study.
We are now at large in the house as usual, and there is no one we should like to see better than you, if it were not unreasonable to wish that you should come so far in the cold with[out] 354 some duteous zeal to warm you on the way.
Only remember that you have two cordial friends in this corner, whom your presence will gladden.
Mr. Lewes is ailing. I am not more dowdy than usual.
Always yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Mr. Arthur Helps. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 30. 75.
My dear Alice
Mr. Lewes is to take me, else I should have been glad of your sweet guardianship in going to see [Iolanthe.] 353
I have not been able to deserve your remembrance in any way except by often thinking of you. This I have done, but I have not had ten spare minutes to spend in telling you of it. We came home about the middle of October, but, to our annoyance, found a smell of paint in the drawing room which obliged us to live for three weeks in my study.
We are now at large in the house as usual, and there is no one we should like to see better than you, if it were not unreasonable to wish that you should come so far in the cold with[out] 354 some duteous zeal to warm you on the way.
Only remember that you have two cordial friends in this corner, whom your presence will gladden.
Mr. Lewes is ailing. I am not more dowdy than usual.
Always yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875, 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/92010