GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, 6 February 1864
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, 6 February 1864
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, 6 February 1864
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Date(s)
- 1864-02-06
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, 6 February 1864
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 17 Wimpole Street | N.W. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | 5 | FE 6 | 64. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 6. 1864.
Dearest Bessie
I enter into your sorrow. 227 Such a friend of years can never be replaced, and you have come away from that grave feeling as if life were a new journey. Your letter came to me very solemnly, for I had not before known of the death, and your words written in such moments will be memorable to me.
Into whatever Fold your faith leads you, my heart will follow you. We may not find it possible for us both to get strength for a pure and loving life by the same means, but we have this always in common, that we believe such strength to be the supreme good.
Thanks for Barbara's letter. When you have freedom of mind enough to attend to such a detail, will you send me, on a scrap of paper, Nannie Smith's address at Rome? Barbara desires me to "read the enclosed," but probably owing to a frequent incons'e9quence of hers in letter-writing, nothing was enclosed. Ever
Your loving Friend
Marian.
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 17 Wimpole Street | N.W. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | 5 | FE 6 | 64. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 6. 1864.
Dearest Bessie
I enter into your sorrow. 227 Such a friend of years can never be replaced, and you have come away from that grave feeling as if life were a new journey. Your letter came to me very solemnly, for I had not before known of the death, and your words written in such moments will be memorable to me.
Into whatever Fold your faith leads you, my heart will follow you. We may not find it possible for us both to get strength for a pure and loving life by the same means, but we have this always in common, that we believe such strength to be the supreme good.
Thanks for Barbara's letter. When you have freedom of mind enough to attend to such a detail, will you send me, on a scrap of paper, Nannie Smith's address at Rome? Barbara desires me to "read the enclosed," but probably owing to a frequent incons'e9quence of hers in letter-writing, nothing was enclosed. Ever
Your loving Friend
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, London, 6 February 1864, 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/92063