GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Richmond, 31 March [1856]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Richmond, 31 March [1856]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Richmond, 31 March [1856]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Date(s)
- 1856-03-31
Place
Richmond
Letter Content
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Richmond, 31 March [1856]
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 5 Blandford Square | London. Postmark: RICHMOND | EV | MR 31 | 1856. Hitherto unpublished.
Richmond | March 31.
Dear Friend
Thank you for "Aspasia." 689 I think her charming, and only wish you had given her more adventures. But the episode of the sucking pigs is best of all. Mr. Lewes is going to read the book, and I know he will think the "Sucking Pigs" ravishing, for he dotes on animals -- I mean animals with four legs.
Your bits of description make me long to be just where you were in Wales. We mean to run away to mountains and molluscs and sea breezes, as soon as the weather gets warm. I hope to see you before then by some means. But seeing, or not seeing you, I am always the same -- at least in esteem and affection towards my friends. In other matters, you will agree with me that I can easily change for the better.
Yours ever,
Marian.
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes | 5 Blandford Square | London. Postmark: RICHMOND | EV | MR 31 | 1856. Hitherto unpublished.
Richmond | March 31.
Dear Friend
Thank you for "Aspasia." 689 I think her charming, and only wish you had given her more adventures. But the episode of the sucking pigs is best of all. Mr. Lewes is going to read the book, and I know he will think the "Sucking Pigs" ravishing, for he dotes on animals -- I mean animals with four legs.
Your bits of description make me long to be just where you were in Wales. We mean to run away to mountains and molluscs and sea breezes, as soon as the weather gets warm. I hope to see you before then by some means. But seeing, or not seeing you, I am always the same -- at least in esteem and affection towards my friends. In other matters, you will agree with me that I can easily change for the better.
Yours ever,
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Richmond, 31 March [1856], 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/92070