GE to Arthur Helps, London, 12 January 1868
Title
GE to Arthur Helps, London, 12 January 1868
Title
GE to Arthur Helps, London, 12 January 1868
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Arthur Helps
Date(s)
- 1868-01-12
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Arthur Helps, London, 12 January 1868
Text: Maggs Brothers Catalogue 473 (Spring 1926), item 195.
I am sincerely obliged by the handsome gift you have sent me. I think I have read the Queen's Journal 721 with more sympathy because I am a woman of about the same age, and also have my personal happiness bound up in a dear husband whose loss would render my life 722 simply a series of social duties and private memories. . . .
I like that page in which the Queen prays for the very house which has sheltered her happily. On closing the book I felt that I had been following a thoroughly upright affectionate nature, and I thank you for giving me that healthy pleasure.
Mr. Lewes has just come back from a fortnight's trip to Bonn and Heidelberg to see some of the great scientific luminaries of those universities.
Text: Maggs Brothers Catalogue 473 (Spring 1926), item 195.
I am sincerely obliged by the handsome gift you have sent me. I think I have read the Queen's Journal 721 with more sympathy because I am a woman of about the same age, and also have my personal happiness bound up in a dear husband whose loss would render my life 722 simply a series of social duties and private memories. . . .
I like that page in which the Queen prays for the very house which has sheltered her happily. On closing the book I felt that I had been following a thoroughly upright affectionate nature, and I thank you for giving me that healthy pleasure.
Mr. Lewes has just come back from a fortnight's trip to Bonn and Heidelberg to see some of the great scientific luminaries of those universities.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Arthur Helps, London, 12 January 1868, 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/92021