GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Tunbridge Wells, 16 July [1853]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Tunbridge Wells, 16 July [1853]
Title
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Tunbridge Wells, 16 July [1853]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Date(s)
- 1853-07-16
Place
Tunbridge Wells
Letter Content
GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Tunbridge Wells, 16 July [1853]
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes Bournemouth near Poole |Dorsetshire. Postmarks: TUNBRIDGE WELLS JY 16 1853 B; POOLE JY 18 1853; BOURNEMOUTH JY 19 1853. Hitherto unpublished.
Pelham House Tunbridge Wells July 16.
Dear Bessie
Why will you go to out-of-the-way places to which the Railway makes serpentine lines through all manner of country?
I came to this place yesterday, wishing to keep inland for a little while. A very beautiful place it is, but so dear -- this being the fashionable season for it -- that I don't think I can stay. There are plenty of Blanche Amorys 349 and other worldlinesses about, but they are too insignificant to spoil one's impression of the large, free beauty nature has all round here. The greatest drawback is the fact of having to pay two guineas a week for two rooms. Ockley would have been better, after all.
Here is a note which I hardly know why I send you, for there is nothing in it. However I had the impulse to say two or three words to you this morning.
Your loving
Marian.
MS: The Countess of Iddesleigh. Envelope: Miss Parkes Bournemouth near Poole |Dorsetshire. Postmarks: TUNBRIDGE WELLS JY 16 1853 B; POOLE JY 18 1853; BOURNEMOUTH JY 19 1853. Hitherto unpublished.
Pelham House Tunbridge Wells July 16.
Dear Bessie
Why will you go to out-of-the-way places to which the Railway makes serpentine lines through all manner of country?
I came to this place yesterday, wishing to keep inland for a little while. A very beautiful place it is, but so dear -- this being the fashionable season for it -- that I don't think I can stay. There are plenty of Blanche Amorys 349 and other worldlinesses about, but they are too insignificant to spoil one's impression of the large, free beauty nature has all round here. The greatest drawback is the fact of having to pay two guineas a week for two rooms. Ockley would have been better, after all.
Here is a note which I hardly know why I send you, for there is nothing in it. However I had the impulse to say two or three words to you this morning.
Your loving
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Tunbridge Wells, 16 July [1853], 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/92073