GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, [1 January 1854]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, [1 January 1854]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, [1 January 1854]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Date(s)
- 1854-01-01
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, [1 January 1854]
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 2 Saville Row. Postmark: Albion St. | 10 | JA 2 | 54. Hitherto unpublished.
Cambridge Street | Sunday Evening.
Dear Friend
I am conscious of having played the hostess most ungracefully the other evening and of having given you poisonously strong tea and been altogether distraite and disagreeable.
Forgive me, dear, for I was indeed rather in a state of flurry, and prove that you forgive me by consenting to come to me again when I return.
Till then think of me kindly as your naughty but loving and trying-to-be-better 426
Marian.
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 2 Saville Row. Postmark: Albion St. | 10 | JA 2 | 54. Hitherto unpublished.
Cambridge Street | Sunday Evening.
Dear Friend
I am conscious of having played the hostess most ungracefully the other evening and of having given you poisonously strong tea and been altogether distraite and disagreeable.
Forgive me, dear, for I was indeed rather in a state of flurry, and prove that you forgive me by consenting to come to me again when I return.
Till then think of me kindly as your naughty but loving and trying-to-be-better 426
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, [1 January 1854], 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/92034